Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Oliver Stone Gets

Oliver Stone Gets Patriotic With 'World Trade Center'
How did the outspoken, conspiracy-minded director manage to make a film even conservatives embrace?

It's hard to imagine there will ever be a better example of the folly of judging a filmmaker by his politics instead of his work than "World Trade Center," a movie opening Wednesday about a team of Port Authority police officers who become trapped in the twisted wreckage of the twin towers. The film celebrates self-sacrifice, personal heroism, the sanctity of family and essentially all that is good about America, with no unsettling pangs of troubling doubt, guilt or dark conspiracy