September 11 reference?
A scene in this movie shows a plane flying behind two industrial towers. The sound of the plane is dominating and there is little significance to the story line. It felt out of place. Anyone else notice?
shareIt's certainly not out of place.
Seeing the old record he broke at the street market made him realize he should go back home. The Plane was used to signal that realization.
Sorry eladl-mail but you are off the target there! The scene off_target is referring to occured earlier in the movie and I certainly got the same feeling of a 9-11 reference out of the blue.
shareThe towers are chimneys, near the Rosemont district where the family lives. The flight paths for two airlines pass directly through that area. It could have been one of the many references to the modernisation of Québec society throughout the film (vignettes of Expo 67, modernist high school architecture etc...)
How on Earth anyone could think that a film set in Canada in the 60s and 70s could have anything do with 11/9 is completely beyond me.
Maybe they are just more brainwashed Americans?
"9/11! Terrorism! War on terror!"
It's absolutely ridiculous that Americans can only see themselves even when they're watching a movie that's set in Quebec in the 1970s. This is why you're known for being the most unworldly people on Earth.
shareI'm not American, I am Australian. Forgive me for being reminded of New York City when I see a plane dominate a scene flying low past 2 towers.
shareIt would seem everyone has their own unfounded suppositions. Naturally, if you mentioned 9/11 and New York, you MUST be an "unworldly" American. Frederick M gave himself away for a prejudiced lout.
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde
I completly agree with you, Frederick M. It is a french canadian movie, and it was never created to entertain a bunch of americans or talk about the september 11th tragedy.
You can do whatever you want, man.share
I disagree with you MissCae. I think the movie was created to entertain people. Americans are people but as for talk about September 11th, well I now doubt it had any intention of that.
shareBeing the 3rd poster in this thread and the 2nd admitting a slight 9-11 deja-vue I would just like to state that I am not American either. Sweden is my home country.
The scene definitely felt a bit out of place like off_target wrote so I don't find it strange that this World Trade Center thought appeared.
I have never visited New York but every time I see the N.Y. skyline in newer movies I miss the Twin Towers. What a colossal loss their destruction was for the world heritage.