The events of September 11, 2001 via the stories of a people who spent time down and around the World Trade Center.
IX XI is one of the most frustrating 9/11 films I've seen. While I absolutely love the stories told. I mean they are absolutely wonderful and completely unlike anything we've heard before becvause they give the events a different context, the filmmakers don't know what to do with them.
The problem is the presentation desn't work. The filmmakers didn't trust their story and had to present the stories in a way that distracts from the human story. It distracts in a couple of ways. First the film intercuts clips from movies and TV. Some of the clips are fine, but a large numer of them don't belong in the film. The other thing the film does is that it has some of the inteviews take place in front of a background that resembles the sides of the towers. At the samt time the lower half of the frame is a reflecting pool that resembles the one at the memorial. Why the filmmakers does this I can't remotely fathom because it is so distracting, especially since the background gets tinted different colors, that we stop listening to the story and look at the frameing. It is exactly precisely how not to make a film (especially since the images will probably not look so good on cellphones (which apparently is how many people watch everything things these days).
I ended up so annoyed I stopped watching the film the second time I watched it and just listened to it. It vastly improved the film.
(can some one explain why this film about the tragedy of 9/11 opens with Edith Piaf's No Regrets? Its a huge WTF move)
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