World Trade Center


How does a film shot in 2010 show a shot out of the apartment window of the World Trade Center towers? It is at the 54:10 mark while the father is speaking.

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Yes, noticed that too. Can only assume it was from old archival family videos.

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Reiyou I went back and rewatched. You are right but the editing is very odd there. The cuts would drive my film making friends nuts.

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The quality is clearly different and taken from the father's home video. When exactly is hard to say though it's clear that the family arrive pre-9/11. Maybe the terror attacks made the guy so paranoid and on guard(?) That suddenly just occurred to me.


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Well this is when the director starts to tell you that most of the footage shot was by the boys themselves.

She has an answer to everything, but the funny thing is, when you call her out on her answers, she changes them to fit the new scenario.

If the 2001 (or prior) is crystal clear and is from their home video camera, which it would have to be because it's shot from their apartment window, then why are all the other videos of the family when they were younger so grainy and real bad quality?

Someone mentioned this in one of their posts and I agreed, but the shot of the towers really got me because I recall it was crystal clear so the "maybe they had a crappy camera" answers just went out the window lol

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