The Wrong Question

Newsweek asks of United 93: is this film necessary? It’s the wrong question; one may as well ask, was Picasso’s Guernica necessary? Did we need any of the multitude of World War II movies, or the soul-searching art post-Vietnam?

Art will commemorate and mythologize and mask and reveal history - it’s no use asking of its necessity. The people who are agonizing over whether America is ready for 9/11 movies are missing the boat; we’ve been shaping and reshaping that event since the moment we saw the first images on television. It’s inevitable; it’s part of being human. It is what it is…

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