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I Almost Had A Heart Attack When I Saw The Chalkboard

posted 14 years ago by alisnapsback
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I saw this movie last night and was really anticipating it, but I had absolutley NO idea about the ending. In the beginning of the movie I found it normal that Tyler's class was talking about terrorism, but I didn't know that the movie's setting was before 2010. As soon as Caroline's teacher moved away from the board to reveal the date my jaw dropped and I almost fell to the floor. I was thinking "Oh god no! WTF!?" I started crying and freaked out. I have to hand it to the writers that I was never in a million years expecting that type of ending.

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[–] CihanVercan 10 years ago

This movie is not about September,11.
But it is a September,11 movie.
Just like Ang Lee's ICE STORM.
September 11 is told as a sociological dystopia.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" -P.K.D.

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[–] Phaedrus1965 10 years ago

Following text blacked out because of spoiler, hover mouse over it to read (I know, kinda pointless after dozens of unprotected comments, call me overzealous): Well, then your attention must have wandered for a moment in the beginning, because one caption read "1991" before the mother was murdered, and after that, another one read "Ten Years Later". But even though it was obviously set in 2001, I was also surprised by the chalkboard, because they didn't say what month in 2001, and the writers or director cleverly included one line about "recent acts of terrorism" in the beginning. I assumed they were talking about 9/11, but of course they were referring to other terrorist attacks (there were plenty leading up to 9/11: the bombing of the Oklahoma building, attacks to American military bases in Africa and even a bomb exploding in the basement of World Trade Center itself).

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[–] Ariae 8 years ago

Felt like a punch in the stomach the moment I saw the chalkboard...It was only 10 minutes left of the movie and I thought I had a good ending ahead of me :(

[–] norman-dostal 8 years ago

Completely lazy and exploitive and vile