Until today, clicking onto and reading this thread was "impossible".

I still feel a gravitational weight , remembering September 11, 2001!!!

Then, I purchased a copy of Reader's Digest. Among the listed features , is an interview done with Nicolas Cage, by Meg Grant.

She asked him several questions, about his childhood, his parents, his new wife and child, etc. Then, she said, "Let's Talk about "World Trade Center".


He explained to her what happened to John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno.(Fire fighters who responded that day, and, were trapped in debri.

Cage spent time with John McLoughlin, preparing for the role--visited Ground Zero with him, and got a sense of what he needed to portray to his Audience in this film.

{quote}-"I felt like I was being called to represent John, and wanted to make sure I got it right. I felt that's how I could give back ,in some way, what they had given to all of us"

He also noted that while their was huge Evil and tragedy that day, there was also tremendous love and goodness--

so, perhaps this movie is Healing?

I still don't know if I can watch it, maybe in a few years, on DVD, so I can hide underneath a quilt and cry into my popcorn!!!!!