September 11: God's Big Heart

Hey Everybody,

I just got back from The Phillip Islands. Apparently, there’s suppose to have a lot of penguins hanging out in the area. (smoking weed and all) Unfortunately, the only penguin i could find in the resort was Tjokro.

But…. That’s a whole story altogether. He has gotten enough stick from me already. I’ll save it for another time. Hehe.

On a more serious note, earlier this afternoon, I had the honor to watch Paul Greengrass’s ‘United 93’ with Alan Tham. The movie spoke to me so strongly in many areas. Note: There is a strong possibility of it being BANNED in Malaysia though.

The film is a value of catharsis; it gives a visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard flight United 93, showing us what it’s like to be one of the passengers.

It’s the unbearable attention to mundane details that make this movie so wrenching and difficult to watch. You see people avoiding eye contact while waiting for the plane, people making small talk, looking at watches, giving fake smiles. The movie is an intense documentary-drama that puts the viewer in a pressure cooker.

At the end of its 110 minutes, this fact-checked, tightly woven drama is incredibly powerful not because it makes you cry or its ability to connect with the audience, but its ability to take us on a journey back through time to the day of the unprecedented American tragedy.

Yes… I did shed a tear or two while watching this controversial masterpiece. Not only for the heroes, victims and their families of September 11, but also for the terrorist hijackers that believed in something so fanatically that it ultimately consumed them.

After the movie, sitting on the tram on my way home, I felt God saying;
‘Jesus died on the cross for sinners like you and everyone else. Yes, he died even for the hijackers involved in the September 11’

I cried again.

A BIG God who loves me,
Dugong