There are ten ten-minute chapters in this film by different directors. That of course makes the rating difficult. Some episodes are worth a 9, some a 2 or 3. The short story from Burkina Faso by Idrissa Ouedraogo is on high school level really. The Japanese part by Shohei Imamura is a disaster in other ways, not having a bit to do with the 11th September.
One of the three best episodes are the one by Claude Lelouch about a relationship between a deaf French woman and a guide at the WTC. Very strong is also Alejandro González Iñárritu's film, showing a dark screen with small glimpses of people jumping out of the towers and a soundtrack consisting partly of the mobile phone calls from inside the towers and the aeroplanes.
Best is perhaps the rather simple approach from Ken Loach. A man from Chile writes a letter to the American people of what happened the 11th September 1973. That was the day president Allende was killed in Pinochet's coup d'état with aid, as Loach puts it out, from CIA and support from Nixon and Kissinger. You see films from Allende's days and from the coup days, hearing stories about the sexual torture of political prisoners, including women being raped by dogs and so on.
The perspective is in many cases blaming USA, not living up to the freedom and democracy it stands for officially. Patriotic Americans might be provoked. Anyway, all things aren't in black and white.
One of the three best episodes are the one by Claude Lelouch about a relationship between a deaf French woman and a guide at the WTC. Very strong is also Alejandro González Iñárritu's film, showing a dark screen with small glimpses of people jumping out of the towers and a soundtrack consisting partly of the mobile phone calls from inside the towers and the aeroplanes.
Best is perhaps the rather simple approach from Ken Loach. A man from Chile writes a letter to the American people of what happened the 11th September 1973. That was the day president Allende was killed in Pinochet's coup d'état with aid, as Loach puts it out, from CIA and support from Nixon and Kissinger. You see films from Allende's days and from the coup days, hearing stories about the sexual torture of political prisoners, including women being raped by dogs and so on.
The perspective is in many cases blaming USA, not living up to the freedom and democracy it stands for officially. Patriotic Americans might be provoked. Anyway, all things aren't in black and white.