While United 93 avoids politics, we sure got political during this 535th episode. But the whole world supposedly changed on this very day 22 years ago and we felt the need to comment on that and what such upheaval has meant to all of our lives. More than 3000 people died during the terrorist attacks on 9/11, but our "civil" society quickly became more divided than ever. As such, we HYES'ers dealt with our complicated feelings about that horrible day, including talking about what "cowardice" and "heroism" really mean. As for the the movie itself, it's dynamite. Paul Greengrass' intense docudrama takes place (mostly) in real time and stars character actors and also people playing themselves. Greengrass uses a shaky cam and a "you are there" verisimilitude to put us in the middle of the mess as the airline passengers fight back against 4 terrorists who are determined to kill. Whatever your politics were then or are now, we can all agree that United 93 is a tremendously effective motion picture about a group of people who were legitimate heroes.

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