September 11 is not mentioned

PC stuff I guess. The end of the World.

Perhaps since Philippe had a extra special relationship with those buildings, it would have been interesting to know his feelings about the loss. As far as I know, it is rare that someone's conquest (e.g., Mount Everest) actually disappears or is destroyed after you have defeated it.

The movie assumes you know the history.
At the end, he states that his pass to the observer level has "Forever" written in the expiration date.

It was more powerful to pause in silence than to add commentary about the irony.

It is ancient history to a new generation, but some of us still mourn and have an empty place in our souls from that weirdly beautiful day in September.

I may never live to see a day with such clear blue skies, and perfectly mild temperature. Yet it would have been a forgotten day for sure, perhaps I would have some recollection of the interesting work I was doing at the technology division of UPS in New Jersey,

However, I can describe every minute of that day and see it as clearly as if it was yesterday. The phone call when I got to work. My frantic effort to locate my brothers who work in lower Manhattan. Dave had a close call in the 93 bombing and Paul, while was based in Jersey City, often spent his days in lower Manhattan.

Dave worked close enough to the Towers to have been hurt by the debris, but was taken a shower at a gym when the announcement came to evacuate. After his experience in 93 he threw on his clothes without toweling off and ran straight for a subway and got out. Others from the gym went towards the towers in curiosity and were severely hurt when they fell.

Paul had previously worked for Merrill Lynch and was invited to attend an annual conference that morning at Windows on the World. He had attended the meeting for the past 5 years with Merrill and his colleagues thought it would be great to have him, this time representing a client.

Paul watched the Towers collapse from a roof top in Jersey City knowing he had friend dying, knowing he was almost one of them.

A close friend of my brother Dave, who's family were good friend with mine, perished that day. Tommy Clark was about 30 years old and a father recently for the second time. I baby sat him and his older brother Jim when I was in high school. I knew other people who died that day, but nobody I cared about like the Tommy and the Clarks. I didn't know Tommy well, but Jim was/is a great friend to my family.

I was heartbroken to hear that his father waited at the train station everyday for over a week waiting for his some to come home. I spoke briefly to him and almost two weeks later all he could say is he knew he would be coming home.

Jimmy had called his brother after the first plane hit. He said that they were assured the incident was in the other building and that the best thing to do was to return to their desks, I think he was on floor 90 something.

Many months later they found some body parts with his wedding ring. At least they had something to bury, more than most families.

I worked on the 90th floor on a project for 4 months in 1988. I can still feel the building sway. Many times I took the PATH to lower Manhattan and still feel a strange awe at the thought of that escalator ride from far below up to the Tower lobby.

I was driving on the Garden State Parkway when the radio announcer, WABC AM 770,said "The Towers are gone". I thought, "What does he mean?" He might as well jusr said Connecticut is gone or Long Island had vanished. A place cannot just disappear, can it?

For a decade, I could not bring myself to visit the site. I could not face the reality that such a place was just gone.

Mention 9/11?
It has never ended.



I was born in the house my father built

Yes that was tastefully done.

Why would I save a world I no longer have any stake in? 

Agree. When he said "forever" a lump came into my throat.

Great answer - exactly what I got from it.

He did give life to the towers. More than once.

Depends on the year.

Not funny. Never forget!!! That day will live in infamy forever!

Surely you can't be serious. I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

Exactly, it doesn't talk about the same period at all.

The twin towers is the connection between 9/11 and the movie.

At the end of the movie they should have said in memory of the towers ,.destroyed in the name of Islam.