We both liked this film which we saw at the Alamo (a percentage of their profit goes to the Bastrop Fire Victims). It's not an artistic film but plays more like a docudrama. While the plague aspect is scary, scary, what's scarier is the greed element. It seems everything that needs fixing in this world (and that's a whole lot of stuff) is corrupted and contaminated by financial greed. There's a moralistic tone in this film that is not necessary regarding the Gwyneth girl (she's not a favorite of mine) but the message is important. Greed, corruption and the destruction of our natural environment for profit hurts all of us...it's a global threat that cannot be denied.
Today I remembered my city of birth, NYC. My children's city of birth and where they received fabulous public educations in the most diversely populated schools. Abe came to this city at age 3 from Berlin and continues his love affair with it from Austin. We are New Yorkers through and through and on 9/11 we remember the gravity of our loss. We pay tribute to the generation of 9/11 who have sacrificed so much to keep us safe. We bow our heads in heartfelt gratitude.
I liked the drama of it and it has a reality, but been there, done that-even a better version based on the Robin Cook novel. It was exciting; it was scary and it was real-agree on all those counts.
ReplyDeleteAnd yesterday, in the city, I thanked every police officer and fireman I ran into.
Pam