The shock of the world .. How did cinema express the events of September 11?

Abdullah Faraj

Eighteen years ago, when the world watched a catastrophe live on television, the moment two planes collided with the World Trade Center towers, the collapse of more than a hundred floors, including human lives that have been under the rubble, and the subsequent charges of terrorism directed at all Arabs and Muslims in general.

September 11, 2001 was a shock to the world, a shock befitting the beginning of a new millennium, which then made the world different from what it was before. Here are 10 films that were affected by the events of 11 September:

11 minutes 9 seconds .. September 11 (2002)
After the incident, French producer and writer Alain Brigand addressed 11 directors from 11 different countries, each taking out his thoughts and ideas about the incident, giving them complete freedom to translate their ideas into a short film, but set them 11 minutes that none of them should come out of.

Eleven stories come in six languages, between a teacher in an Iranian village trying to explain what happened to her young students, a deaf French woman living in Manhattan writing a letter to her boyfriend John, who left morning to work at the World Trade Center, a Chilean musician remembers Allende and his reign, and an Egyptian director who meets a spirit An American soldier is arguing about terrorism and violence in the world.

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
A documentary in which American director and writer Michael Moore traces the circumstances and circumstances used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq and declare the war on terror, based on television footage featuring speeches of the then president, and meetings with politicians, in which he mocked how the Bush administration resorted to distract the people. And the American search for the real culprit behind the events of September 11, and took it as a pretext for the war against Iraq, and how this war wasted the lives of American soldiers and American public money.

Jasmine (2004)
After the events of September 11, in which Muslims were the primary culprits, the world changed its perception of Muslims by circulating a pride that all Muslims were considered potential terrorists. This is the story of the English / British film Jasmine about a Pakistani Muslim family living in Britain before 9/11. And how the British society around her and her life are changing.

Her husband, who does not speak fluent English, is arrested and charged with terrorism, in the shadow of a new and mysterious process of terrorism and counter-terrorism, within a society that is beginning to close and fear anyone with the formal qualities and oriental features of a potential terrorist, known as Islamophobia.

United 93 (2006)
Based on real events, this film was produced to tell the story of a US collective, the story of United Airlines Flight 93 on a Boeing 757-222 that took off from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco Airport, carrying 44 Passengers, including four hijackers.

The hijackers seized the plane and ordered the pilot to divert it to Washington, DC, but some passengers and crew resisted the hijackers in an attempt to control the plane, downing the plane, and dying on board, including the hijackers before realizing their plan.

World Trade Center (2006)
Another story of September 11, not from the sky or from a plane, but from the lowest of the World Trade Center, minutes after the bombing, when four New York State security personnel enter the South Tower to save what can be saved, but they get stuck inside a well. The elevators are cut off from contact with the outside world and rescue teams and trying to get out, one of them dies, and the rest are struggling to survive, another American heroism in the heart of the disaster.

Reign Over Me
This is not a film about the world, nor about America, nor about terrorism, nor about major political issues, but it is not in isolation. The global, to enter a wave of depression and unity trying to get out of it, and meet an old friend from the university stage, trying to help him discover what comes out of his shock to the loss of the family.

My name is Khan (2010)
"My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist." This is the statement made by the young Indian resident in America Rizwan Khan throughout the events of the second half of the film, after the killing of his brother by a group of young men, and the threat of his family, under ill-treatment and social prejudice against him after the events of September 11.

Radwan suffers from Esperger syndrome and takes his wife's sarcastic statement that he should tell the president that "his name is Khan and that he is not a terrorist." His position and prove his innocence.