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From that preview, it looks, as if the movie won´t be much about the monster, but instead about reliving the terrorist attacks on Manhattan. The people not knowing, what´s going on and turning to the news, looking to the city and seeing explosions, running away from toppling buildings and rushing dust clouds.
The monster seems to be a giant fig leaf, so that people can safely experience the first person thrill and adrenalin rush of the attacks without their conscience getting in the way. The audience can say "it´s just a monster movie", when it looks to be more a reenactment of the panic, confusion and terror of what people experienced that day.
It also reminds me of some scenes from War of the worlds. For example, when Tom Cruise came home and discovered that he was entirely caked with the dust of dead people, or the floating clothes in the wood (like all that paper from the hit buildings), the wreck of a plane that had been falling almost right on top of the house where he hid with his family.
Maybe this movie could be a way to help people come to grips with what happened in a visceral way and by using the monster to put a gap between fiction and reality? Then it could be similar to the early Godzilla movies that sublimated the horror of the nuclear attacks on japanese cities. |
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