2006 · drama · thriller · history
United 93 (2006)
Directed by Paul Greengrass1h 51m2006
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Our read: United 93 (2006) (2006) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · thriller · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
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