In three weeks, the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival will start with a controversial film about 9/11.

United 93 is the title of the first movie about 9/11 to be released. The first because it is now well-known that Oliver Stone also did a movie about that tragic day. While Stone's film, currently in post-production, will follow the actions of two cops in the World Trade Center, Paul Greengrass' will focus on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania before heading toward any other hypothetical destination.

"The events of 9/11 had a massive effect on me, like everyone, and I wanted to use my position as a filmmaker to contribute something so they are not casually forgotten. United 93' tells one story of that morning and I hope that by showing the film at Tribeca, whose roots and inspiration grew in response to the devastation of 9/11, we will be reminded of the courage of all those on board and also the thousands of men and women who confronted similarly unimaginable scenarios in New York and Washington."

We have entered an era in which all real-life events have to be fictionalized via the image medium. I can bet that one day the New Orleans catastrophe will be on screen. If tomorrow the President was assassinated, it would be turned into a feature film next year.

The famous sentence "based on a true story" that is shown before almost every movie is a sign of something else. It doesn't mean that the movie was based on a true story; it is a way to make the film more attractive to viewers. People want to see reality. It is more comfortable for one to experience 9/11 from a theater seat eating popcorns than from Tower number 2. Then afterward they will remember it as a movie rather than a true event. You can't forget reality, you can however, forget a film. But it is certain that the producers won't forget that day when they made an incredible amount of money in the name of a good cause.