United 93

You can expect to see a trailer for a new movie about United 93 from the 9/11 attacks. The trailer is stirring up some big reactions (from Newsweek):

If movie trailers are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no voice-over and no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie's even about. That's when a plane hits the World Trade Center. The effect is visceral. When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, where 9/11 remains an open wound, the response was even more dramatic. The AMC Loews theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints. "One lady was crying," says one of the theater's managers, Kevin Adjodha. "She was saying we shouldn't have [played the trailer]. That this was wrong ... I don't think people are ready for this."

If the movie's as powerful as the trailer seems to be, this could stir up some feelings in Americans that have largely been lost since the anger and shock of the attacks wore off.

Looking at it from a purely political point of view, this is bad news for the Dems. People will once again be reminded what the war on terror is all about, and which party wants to take the fight to the terrorists, and which party wants to quit. The film of planes hitting the World Trade Center is rarely seen these days, and that's a shame. We should never become immune to the shock we felt that day.