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9/11 vs. the Movies

Maybe it's more like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Too Soon: "There is also the question of whether or not certain aspects of Sept. 11 -- such as the people who leapt out the tower windows -- should even be dealt with in a fiction film. 'Should you show the jumpers or not?' wonders Angus Kress Gillespie, who teaches a course on the history of Sept. 11 at Rutgers University. 'It's very controversial. It's terrifying, it's horrible, but it needs to be shown. This is not an abstraction that it was a horrible event; it was a horrible event.'" [LAT]