Oliver's twist

World Trade Center is sober, inspiring—and nothing like anything Oliver Stone has made before | Andrew Coffin

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language) is bizarre and shocking, but for none of the anticipated reasons. The film can be described using a long list of adjectives never before associated with an Oliver Stone film: sober, inspiring, patriotic, uncynical, rousing, hopeful, sincere—even devout.

While not quite as forceful in impact or elegant in structure as an earlier movie about 9/11, United 93, World Trade Center manages to tell a remarkable, honest story devoid of politics and conspiracy theories. By filming a script written by someone other than himself and based on the true story of Port Authority officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno (see "Purpose-driven life"), Stone (pictured) has put aside his personal fixations while putting his filmmaking talent to meaningful and valuable use.

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August 12, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 31

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