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9/11 (hear me out on this...)

posted 8 years ago by MisterWhiplash
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I have a theory as to why the dad took the decision to basically lock up his children (until they rebelled or whatever and finally struck out to find their own jobs and places and so on, and this is aside from the fact that he has some mental disorder): 9/11. There's a very brief shot, taken from the family home-video footage, where the dad is describing coming to New York city as a stop on the way to Scandinavia or what have you, and it's a shot of the Twin Towers. Clearly if they were living in NYC at the time then this was right in the area where they were in the midst of all of this terror and horrors of the attacks. I think that this caused the father to snap and decide that the city would not be safe to take his kids out into (logically it wouldn't make sense to keep them "locked up" in any case, but in the 21st century crime has gone down in the city compared to the 70s-80-s-90s).

It's just a theory, and I'm going by a very thin piece of evidence, but it could explain a lot.

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[–] TaraDeS 8 years ago

MisterWhiplash Sun Mar 20 2016 20:55:19

I have a theory as to why the dad took the decision to basically lock up his children (until they rebelled or whatever and finally struck out to find their own jobs and places and so on, and this is aside from the fact that he has some mental disorder): 9/11. There's a very brief shot, taken from the family home-video footage, where the dad is describing coming to New York city as a stop on the way to Scandinavia or what have you, and it's a shot of the Twin Towers. Clearly if they were living in NYC at the time then this was right in the area where they were in the midst of all of this terror and horrors of the attacks. I think that this caused the father to snap and decide that the city would not be safe to take his kids out into (logically it wouldn't make sense to keep them "locked up" in any case, but in the 21st century crime has gone down in the city compared to the 70s-80-s-90s).

It's just a theory, and I'm going by a very thin piece of evidence, but it could explain a lot.

iTunes podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wages-of-cinema/id977881387?mt=2/

Hmmm...Hmmmmm.
You really made me think.
The footage is right. The Twin Towers were shown for a short in their family records. Had a cold feeling in my neck when I saw it.
At a first thought your theory doesn't fit by time cause he locked his family and himself even before 9/11. But that wasn't really said somewhere, I only implied it. His sons liked to say "always" what's for their young memory probably correct.
The doc pointed out, he locked his family against the dangerous neighbourhood (drug dealers, criminals), but the doc is in many aspects very doubtful.

Though don't think the father snapped (he doesn't appear crazy to me), for sure the ugly happenings around him in 2001 had an impact. Then again...if he saw the Twin Towers fall, the dust- and smoke-waves blowing down the streets and maybe he even saw the desperate people jumping out the windows, wouldn't that have made him getting out of the building instead of staying (locked) inside?
Merde, just a description of another bad burning came into my mind.
NYC 1911.

However, need to roll your theory a little longer in my head.