'United 93'

United 93 is a 2006 fact-based drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks.


Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, hijackers Ahmed al-Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi are praying in their hotel room, United 93's skyjacking ringleader Ziad Jarrah reading the Quran, and Saeed al-Ghamdi shaving. The four then leave for Newark International Airport. At the airport, the crew and passengers board United Airlines Flight 93. Shortly after boarding, and the safety briefing, Flight 93 is delayed for 41 minutes because of the high volume of traffic. The three other soon to be hijacked flights, American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and American Airlines Flight 77 take off. 

United 93 shows the audience the tenacity and determination of the passengers to take over the plane which despite their best efforts were unsuccessful in obtaining control of the plane. 

In the picture on the right the audience see the passengers drowding round one another discussing about how they're going to take over the plane, I feel that In this shot particularly the audience can understand the emotions that were going through the passengers at this time you get a sense of their upset that this is happening to them and the anger with the people responsible for putting them in this situation. 

In the picture on the left the audience see a couple embracing one another you can see that the man is protecting his wife by holding her close to him; this gives the audience the sense of vulnerability that surrounds these passengers, they have been cut off from the outside world and whilst everybody is going about their normal day these people are trapped in a plane that has been hijacked and nobody is aware of this. 

What draws me to 'United 93' is that sense you get of understanding how each individual passenger felt and what they went through whilst aboard united 93. As an audience up until now nobody has really understood visually what it was like for the passengers being on a hijacked plane  all we have had is recordings and friends and family members accounts of phonecalls they recieved from the passengers.                                                                                                                                                       

For more information visit the United 93 national memorial website http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm