United 93 is a movie depicting what happened on board the hijacked plane that ultimately crashed in a field. The roles are played by unknown actors but Paul Greengrass does cast real people as themselves, specifically the staff at the various air-traffic centres, each character is ringed with authenticity through their regional accents, the easy use with the terminology. The beginning of the movie of the showing passengers boarding Flight 93 and beginning their seemingly uneventful flight juxtaposes the inter cut depictions of concurrent frightful happenings of several scenes prior. We don't get to see the hijackers actually do anything until an hour in. In the meantime, we see the first two planes disappear off the radar at air traffic control and plough into the world trade centre..at which point Greengrass uses shocked silence from the onlookers as they stare at live footage feed from the news and control station, rather than a enormous score to underline the obvious. There is a lack of dialogue in United 93, it avoids any commentary,but adds to the tension and gut-wrenching scene.
United 93 feels documentary-like, quite dispassionate and with a lot of handheld camera, particularly when events turn frenetic. There is no manipulative music, no condemnation of the hijackers of United Airlines flight 93, and no back-pedal of pace and energy once the action gets underway. While it's important to believe that something noble occurred on that plane, United 93 doesn't offer a simplistic, comforting lore about what may have happened and why. This is evident as no obvious leader rises up nor is there any definitive action moment. Greengrass presents the final moments of United 93 as plausibly, as possible- a group of frightened, agonised and confused people struggling, at bare minimum, to save their lives.
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