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  • A Call to Unity

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    United 93  (2006)

    Paul Greengrass directs his meditative masterpiece about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. This stands alone as an artistic masterpiece, everything from cinematographic differentiation between the different locations to camera framing to directing to screenplay. Greegrass' in-the-moment camera work could not have been used more fully and beautifully as it tells the story in real time right from the terrorists waking up in the morning and getting ready to a most powerful and inspiring end. The scene in which the passengers aboard United 93 try to take back the plane made me feel proud to be an American, to be quite honest. Ultimately, in reflecting on this film I think we must remember those who died that fateful day, and to live by their example, that we can't afford to give in to those who want to destroy us.

  • A Brilliant Culmination

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    A brilliant culmination of the Jason Bourne character, and probably the most artful of the three installments. It connected extremely well with the previous two, and the parallelism they drew with the previous films was right on the money. Well edited, directed, and written, obviously, bringing an excitingly satisfying end to Jason Bourne's identity crisis with a new version of Moby's "Extreme Ways". This turned out to be one of the best trilogies in filmmaking history.


  • Identity Ends... But Wait, There's More!

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    Another excellent installment to the trilogy. In hindsight I appreciated this film just as much, because it was ultimately about Bourne coming to grips with the consequences of his past actions as an agent for Treadstone. The atmospherism toward the end helped with that. It wasn't like the first one, which was more about creating a variety of conflicts that we want Jason to pull through in the end. A brilliant sequel.

  • Excellent

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    It was only until after United 93 that I truly began to appreciate Paul Greengrass' approach to directing and camera work. In hindsight this was an excellent first installment into the Bourne trilogy. I appreciated the slight atmospherism here and there, along with Greengrass' in-the-moment documentary approach to the more exciting moments, the fights, the chases, etc. Jason Bourne is a man we can root for, and him being as clueless as we are adds a need to watch the rest of film and a desire to follow along actively with the story. Great performances as well.

 

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