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"September 11" consists of 11 segments relating to the 9/11 attacks. The only overtly political ones are Ken Loach's, in which a Chilean man reminds Americans that September 11 is also the anniversary of the coup in Chile, and Mira Nair's, about a Pakistani-American family suspected of being terrorists. Most of the segments are basically slice-of-life stories about how people got affected by the attacks: Sean Penn's casts Ernest Borgnine as a man caring for a flower, Amos Gitai's looks at a bombing in Israel, and Samira Makhmalbaf's focuses on some Afghan schoolchildren.The main thing that I derived from the movie is that, because of the impact that the attacks had on everyone, it was the one chance to unite the whole world. Unfortunately, we all saw what Bush did instead. It should have been a wake-up call, but it became an excuse for extreme ignorance.Overall, this movie should prompt you to think. Bad things have always been happening, but people do what they can to go on. Is there any hope for our country?

The segment from the UK by Vladimir Vega motivated me to research the Chilean coup of September 11th 1973. I understand his view point but after researching the "Chilean coup of 1973" on Wikipedia I do not conclude the same comparisons to 9/11/2001. He claims the US caused the destruction thus a terrorist attack on his country. However it appears there were many factors leading up to the incident and although the US had a hand in the politics of the country the outcome is not solely the US's blame and the actual attack there on 9/11/1973 is not comparable to meaningless attack of 9/11/2001. If some hillbillies from the US acted individually and hijacked planes and crashed them into the presidential palace it would be comparable but since a coup d'état is not what happened in the US on 9/11/2001 I find his segment little more than inflammatory than informative or deserving of sympathy or justifying the action. The movie does give different view points from people around the world and only highlights the magnitude of misinformation of the masses that will continue to perpetrate hatred and violence and war among the people of the world.

Definitely a spoiler or two, or three.....As a collection of films about how the world reacted to the September 11th terrorist attacks, this film is as mixed a bag as can be, and shows both the widely ranging views but also the aspirations of their directors.The two pieces that I thought really addressed the issues about 9/11 were the Afghanistan and Egyptian ones. The Afghan piece, showing the children not having a clue about 9/11, and dismissing much of it as god's will, was somewhat unnerving. The children's easy assumptions all too easily can also be seen as the hardened voices and ideology of adults.The Egyptian piece was the one that focused the most on the underlying conflicts behind 9/11, and the director was obviously involved in a lot of soul searching and questioning, seeing things in the larger context of world affairs and who's really right or wrong. I commend him on his honesty, even if his words are addressed across an impassable chasm. Suicide bombers are equated as freedom fighters, and very few people outside the Muslim world will accept that point of view. The Indian piece focused on 9/11 the event, (The Egyptian one did start off there) and presents the juxtaposition of a Muslim aid worker who went to help at the twin towers and dies, and is mistakenly believed later to have been a terrorist. It addresses well the conflicted emotions right after the event, but it is set in New York, and doesn't look at what India's views on 9/11 were at all.Others vary from good to simply awful. The one everyone talks about, the Mexican section by Inarritu, was an interesting film technique but didn't add much else narrative or discussion wise. The French and Burkina-Faso sections looked like the director's effort to show their skills and make a movie only incidentally about 9/11. The Burkina-Faso is really more a moral fable but adds some humor and levity in the midst of the more serious clips.Sean Penn's section was on the surface a good character study, and Ernest Borgnine turns in a fine performance as an elderly man living a life of routine with little to look forward to. However, the heavy handed symbolism is too much, Penn might as well cut to a shot of himself with a flashlight in the camera shouting, "Open your eyes! Can't you see?"The Israeli movie was a flop, it wasn't done very well and the director tries to keep up the hectic pace of a post-bombing chaos for the whole 11 minutes. The result is a camera panning back and forth across some obviously staged wreckage and the same four or five people running back and forth into camera view. It had a notable statement, but a poor execution.The British clip was the one that made the most people upset and caused some people at the showing I attended to walk out. I had to go home to look up who Allende was, and I wonder how long the good times in Chile under him would have lasted. There's no doubt Pinochet was a bad guy and the CIA was involved in putting him in power--but completely missing from the furious British director's movie and his UK located Chilean expatriate's narrative is how Pinochet went to Britain for medical treatment in 1997-1999 and several countries tried to extradite him for his crimes, which Britain refused to do. A movie so heavily casting the blame should look at the whole thing, not what fits the view best.The Japanese movie was the most different and confusing, and relates to 9/11 at best allegorically. Like the French and Burkina-faso pieces it too seems a flex at movie making over issues.Overall this movie will likely leave you feeling as conflicted as it's various shorts, and thinking about things for a long time after.

I expected to be shocked... I was, but to a point so much more than I expected actually !!!All these segments, except perhaps on a much lesser scale Sean Penn's more abstract view of how the world was, still is, and will remain, which was a bit out of focus, are sublime and disturbing.To make such a dramatic collage of all these nations, all these people and all these lives, you truly see, taste and hear how this awful event touched so many lives. You feel a sense of urgency for the current lack of compassion, love and respect we all miss for each one another.One will look at this film in fifty years and say: Man, they REALLY went wrong, or didn't understand anything about anything in those days.This picture, brilliantly edited, in-your-face honest and at times, overbearing, is perhaps the greatest tribute to our screwed up world as a whole... I feel that, in respects with another film that attempted to strike a chord with a post 9-11 world and failed along the way (The 25th Hour), this picture is much more complete, far more passionate and intense...I was shocked to see such animosity in earlier comments to this film, specially since it presents the world wholly and completely honestly without exclusively focusing on the misery of the people within the geographical boundaries of the United States after 9-11.Maybe now it's time to focus on the world outside north America, and surely, now it's time to get over this awful day, and focus on other more urgent issues once and for all.