Title:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Genre:
Drama

Directed by:
Stephen Daldry

Starring:
Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman

Release date:
Fri 20, Jan 2012

My first reaction seeing the movie posters for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closein the subways was: “Huh, it’s not September.” That’s because the 9/11 story has been given a very narrow piece of public space to be explored. August is off limits. So is October — and pretty much the rest of the year. But now, more then 10 years after the buildings fell, the questions, emotion, and complexity of the 9/11 story may be able to start to become part of the public conversation.

And, surprisingly it was Tom Selleck who began to convince me of that. But before we get to the re-birth of Magnum PI, the story begins with the theatrical film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Moviemakers worked hard to make this ‘not a 9/11 movie’ — but alas it is. A film of loss, of new human connections, and of how the pain of 9/11 can open new doors. Maybe because I went into it with my guard up, or maybe because the telling of the story feels too emotionally art-directed, I found that it was neither a New York story nor a broader parable. » Read more: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close