My latest Sympatico/MSN movies column is up, using the release of “Stop-Loss” as a springboard to discuss the way impassioned cinema can comment on pertinent social and political issues … and, sometimes, even does it well.
I did not write the headline.
I’m going to quietly add A Mighty Heart to your list. Angelina Jolie was incredibly effective as Marianne Pearl and exemplifies your “people not history” preference for World Trade Center over United 93.
Yeah, that’s a good one — and I’m embarrassed to admit it didn’t even occur to me while I was putting my list together.
Nice catch!