Was Fahrenheit the most touching 9/11 tribute you've seen?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

It was for me. It was so tastefully done that the black screen let my mind rerun the images and feelings of that day and not have someone spoonfeed them to me over and over and over and...

Also the floating bits of paper in the smoke was one of the most haunting visuals I've seen in a movie in a long time - speaking purely artisticly

[WLKjr]

1. It was really thoughtfull

of M.M. not to show the actual footage of the plane crashes. The sound alone was enough to make people in the theater I went to sob. I myself got a little teary eyed and felt goosebumps all over.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. I think it was a stroke of genius on his part

We've seen it so often we're desensitized.

He took a page from radio and let the most powerful element a filmaker (or any artist) has - his audiences imaginations. Its empowering for the moviegoer and I give him special kudos for that!

[KittyWampus]

3. Union Square Park, With All The Candles, Monks, Photos, Poems,

and makeshift Memorials will always be the most Immediate and Heartfelt Tribute in my mind.

Totally spontaneous and filled with Compassion. No John Waynes there... except for the cardboard cutout someone had placed there as social commentary.

But Yes, the Black Screen made an impact.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Oh - I agree - of course. No comparison to live tributes

I should have been more specific. And I saw that so I know what you mean.

The flowers piled up at every firehouse is another of the more touching ones which will haunt me

[seventhson]

8. I was there

the Tibetan chanters and incense will always remain burned in my memory. My wife and dughter sat with them for a long while and the energy was amazing. sad and beautiful in Union square.

[Lisa0825]

4. The papers in the smoke really was haunting.....

and I just kept thinking about the smoke, and what was in it. I was sobbing, along with the two older men next to me.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. "what was in it".....wow - thats some shit!

I hadn't thought of that.

Thanks.

[Lisa0825]

11. It occurred to me when they weren't finding many bodies... and

then it was all I could think of every time I saw the smoke.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. I'll be thinking of that for quite some time - profound

People inhaled that smoke, had it on their faces, bodies, everywhere. It reached high up into the sky and to the burroughs beyond.


*Sigh*

[Skittles]

5. it was a very powerful blank screen

and he didn't show what the people were looking up at but we knew what they were seeing.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Exactly - he allowed the horror we've imagined for 3 years take its

personal course. Letting our minds' eyes to see for themselves. He knows how to make a film all right!

[nofurylike]

7. absolutely. n/t