DC 9/11

Lights, Camera, Exploitation.

A made-for-TV movie on the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York.

The upcoming Showtime feature DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history...DC 9/11 also marks a new stage in the American cult of personality: the actual president as fictional protagonist.

Read it. Read it right now. And when you get to the line

"One of the original aspects of Soviet cinema is its daring in depicting contemporary historical personages, even living figures," André Bazin dryly observed in his 1950 essay, "The Myth of Stalin in the Soviet Cinema." It was one of the unique characteristics of Stalin-era Soviet movies that their infallible leader was regularly portrayed, by professional impersonators, as an all-wise demiurge in suitably grandiose historical dramas. So it is with DC 9/11, where documentary footage of the collapsing WTC is punctuated by the pronouncements of [actor Timothy] Bottoms's Bush.

I want you to stop and think on what it may say about US that the closest analogy for media on our 'fearless leader' is propaganda from the Soviet Union. Which is, one might note only in passing, a now-dead empire.