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9/11 Film ? A Different Kind of Entertainment

Oliver Stone`s controversial World Trade Center will soon provide a different type of entertainment to the movies fans. Nicholas Cage, the famous entertainment star, is starring in the movie, which tells the true story of two police officers who were thought to have been the last people pulled from the Twin Towers. Most of the reviews have been positive, with many entertainment critics praising the film`s sensitivity.

However, some of the survivors have criticized it for being released so close to the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Carie Lemack, whose mother Judy Larocque was a passenger on one of the hijacked flights, said she had walked out of cinemas showing the film`s trailer. "I didn`t want to have to see my mom`s murder, I don`t know why I have to experience it every time I`m going to watch a movie," she said. However, some of the victims` relatives disagree.

Oliver Stone said he "didn`t want to offend people in Lower Manhattan" and that the movie was supposed to be "sensitive". Meetings were held with New York residents and victims` families and it was decided to make the majority of the film on a Los Angeles sound stage. The collapse of the Twin Towers is not recreated and is only shown as news footage playing on television screens in the background.