anniversary time
Sep. 11th, 2006 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321So 9/11 is all over the news. Or 11/9, as it should be rightly called by UK standards. *tries to resist American running dogs' take-over of world Anglophonisms*
I am ambivalent about the exploitation of this day. On the one hand, I appreciate the need for concrete memorialisation on particular occasions as opposed to a general memory that goes on all the time. Monuments, rituals, these are necessary things.
On the other hand, I'm not sure about the commercial exploitation going on right now. Made for TV dramatisations starring Harvey Keitel, Hollywood feature films starring Nicholas Cage -- I don't like it. T'h watched one of these last night; I purposely did not. I was traumatised by 11/9 and I continue to be appalled by the aftermath. The aftermath (Iraq) now colours for me my view of 11/9/2001 and makes me wary of any representations that might sentimentalise that event, and de-politicise it.
Also, I don't like the notion that producers and companies are making money from people's deaths. It was only a matter of time but the time seems to have zoomed by amazingly quickly for business ventures to lose their inhibitions.
Maybe I should see the arty documentaries made about the topic which, according to the blurbs, are critical and so forth. But then I'm afraid they might totally depress me.
*is frog and sticks head in bucket and watches frivolous sci-fi shows made in Canada instead*
I am ambivalent about the exploitation of this day. On the one hand, I appreciate the need for concrete memorialisation on particular occasions as opposed to a general memory that goes on all the time. Monuments, rituals, these are necessary things.
On the other hand, I'm not sure about the commercial exploitation going on right now. Made for TV dramatisations starring Harvey Keitel, Hollywood feature films starring Nicholas Cage -- I don't like it. T'h watched one of these last night; I purposely did not. I was traumatised by 11/9 and I continue to be appalled by the aftermath. The aftermath (Iraq) now colours for me my view of 11/9/2001 and makes me wary of any representations that might sentimentalise that event, and de-politicise it.
Also, I don't like the notion that producers and companies are making money from people's deaths. It was only a matter of time but the time seems to have zoomed by amazingly quickly for business ventures to lose their inhibitions.
Maybe I should see the arty documentaries made about the topic which, according to the blurbs, are critical and so forth. But then I'm afraid they might totally depress me.
*is frog and sticks head in bucket and watches frivolous sci-fi shows made in Canada instead*