This movie is relatively low rated, but is scarily prescient.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Siege
Shiva116k — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 02:40 PM)
I find it kind of incredible that this film exists. If The Siege had been written a few years after 9/11, it would be taken as one big and not at all subtle allegory for those events and themes playing off of them . . . the fact that it came before is just creepy. I mean so many of the issues it touches on from civil liberties in the face of terrorism and torture, to profiling, to a lack of inter-agency cooperation, to the impact of foreign policy in the middle-east . . . I mean we take these discussions for granted these days, but here it all was in a big Hollywood movie about terrorist attacks on New York. Even the throwaway clips of reaction on news shows are so recognisable.
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barbc1973 — 9 years ago(August 26, 2016 06:49 PM)
Just watched it a second time; my feelings duplicated yours exactly. But the speech "if we torture him, the terrorists win" sounds so familiar I can't help but wonder if people over the last 15 years were just quoting the movie? Also, how to watch Denzel on the pavement looking up as paper and ash debris fell on him, his POV, without Towers recallnot to mention elegant woman missing her arm. Astonishing. Why such a low rating?!
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