United 93 (2006) - LightShed 8

Excellent movie.  I felt sick in it -- because of the content, certainly, but also because the camera wouldn't stop shaking.

United 93 tells us the story of the fourth airplane that was hijacked on September 11, 2001, and the only one not to hit a previously specified target. 

There is no explicit gay content in the movie.  However, one of the heroes in that flight was Mark Bingham, an out gay rugby player and businessman, played well by Cheyenne Jackson.

In the movie, we see our gay hero talking about rugby, laying out plans of action, but we do not get any indication that he is gay in the movie. 

A lot of the people got to say goodbye, but Mark was fighting and it appears he did not get a chance to say bye to his family.  Sad, sad, sad.

Anyway, Mark was an out gay men, and there was plenty of media attention to that fact.

So, despite the lack of explicit gay content, I believe the movie deserves a LightShed score (rather than a No Gay Content score). 

Another movie about the September 11 events will be released on August 9, 2006: World Trade Center.  Maybe influenced by what I saw in United 93, I cried watching the trailer for World Trade Center.  I know, gay, gay, gay.  You can watch the trailer here. 

Comments

[Marcus]

Yeah!
I'm sure that better days will come!

[Queer Beacon]

I feel you Marcus. We are living in sad times, but it'll get better. We have to believe that, right? ;-)

[Marcus]

This movie was released here last weekend (because the 9/11 of course).

Well, I left the Movie Theatre about 1 hour ago, and I'm still sick.

That's an excelent movie with an, unfortunatelly real, sad history.

I can't understand the the mankind. God bless us.

[RIC]

Cheyenne Jackson's a hunk indeed, but I guess the whole film must be very sad indeed. I don't know whether I could cope with such strong emotions these days. Not in a movie theatre, anyway.