In the wake of the 9/11 anniversary, I decided to seek out Path to Paradise, an HBO movie from the 1990s (1996, maybe?) about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. You can find it on YouTube if you must, but it's on Netflix. Hard to find elsewhere though.
Decent, competent movie. Peter Gallagher chews scenery well. The actors playing the terrorists, particularly the guy who rents the van (Saladeh?) and Ramzi Yousef are standouts. I think that guy also played the bad guy in True Lies.
What really blows your mind is how eerie the whole endeavor is in light of 9/11. I'm shocked that the film hasn't gotten more play. The terrorists (Ramzi Yousef in particular) talk incessantly about their desire to bring both towers down. The last line in the movie is particularly breathtaking given what happened.
Has anyone seen it? Thoughts?
This is a question for the New Yorkers. Were the towers that big of a deal? I mean, did we really conceive of the towers as the pinnacle of our civilization? Never having lived in NYC (and only visited after 9/11), I don't have a good grasp of that. To me they were just tall buildings, like the Sears Tower in Chicago.
