http://www.gothamist.com/2005/04/23/gothamcinemist_the_interpreter.php All comments for Gotham-cinem-ist: The Interpreter en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/04/23/gothamcinemist_the_interpreter.php#comment-49395 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/04/23/gothamcinemist_the_interpreter.php#comment-49395 Comments Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:16:13 -0500 <p>I read this post before I saw the movie...so I knew what would happen when they stepped off the bus, I was still pretty shaken when I saw it explode. I was surprised that before the movie, the two previews were both for airplane disaster movies and both (I think) were coming out this September. Why all of a sudden? Did Hollywood decide that 4 years is the magic grieving period?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/04/23/gothamcinemist_the_interpreter.php#comment-49082 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/04/23/gothamcinemist_the_interpreter.php#comment-49082 Comments Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:58:50 -0500 <p>It was a waste of time for me. It's just waaay too convenient that she speaks the language and she happens to overhear the plot at exactly the right moment. Would have been better if she heard somebody talking in Ku, listens for a while out of curiosity and then they mention the plot. What a waste of the opportunity to film in the UN. Sure, it looked great, but this really had nothing to do with the UN. It could just as easily have been set in an embassy. You notice they never showed the problems with the UN. Last time I was there, there was peeling paint in the lobby. Total cowardice that they made up a country so they wouldn't upset anyone. Over the decades, there's scarcely a real country that hasn't been portrayed in unflattering terms, all the way from Germany to Russia to Japan to Iraq to Somalia and most recently "Hotel Rwanda." A few ruffled feathers would have made it much more interesting and watchable. Heck, Pollack's own "Three Days of the Condor" made the US government look bad. As for the panic after the bombing, I think they did mention in one of the newscast voiceovers that all bridges and tunnels would be closed for at least the next few days. Besides, that kind of apprehension and fear was captured very well by the Denzel Washington movie, "The Siege." The bigger problem is the bombing came out of nowhere. The guy had bombs all over his apartment but we never heard about any recent bombings. So why have so many? This was better than Wesley Snipes' "The Art of War," the other recent movie set in the UN, but that's not saying much.</p>