“It was like something out of a movie.”

Mark Steyn has re-posted a column that he wrote shortly after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, commenting on the way many people said “It was like something out of a movie.” He introduces the column by noting a certain irony:

The fuss over this week’s release of United 93 – “It’s too soon”, “We’re not ready” – would have astonished almost any American moviegoer from the first half-century of motion pictures. Flight 93 is a story of such transparent heroism that the only question is why it’s taken five years to make. But today the same people who tout the “relevance” and “courage” of Hollywood also argue that it’s “insensitive” to make films dealing with the events of that day.

FWIW, I wrote my own “it was like a movie” article for BC Christian News just a couple weeks after the attacks. Click here to read it.