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February 22, 2006

While the decent-but-redundant Why We Fight plays in theaters, a far more compelling and infuriating documentary of tertiary topicality is streaming for free at Google. Loose Change, directed by Dylan Avery, is the first time I've found myself glued to a 320x240 window for a feature length running time (I guess it is possible).

Watch the first five minutes and see if you can turn it off. It's admittedly inconclusive (to, I think, its benefit), and there's a lot of room for error, but what facts it does have are pretty damning.

Posted by David Lowery at February 22, 2006 10:23 PM

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i did exactly that. i downloaded it and then put in on, planning to just watch a couple minutes, but i ended up sitting through the whole thing. my jaw dropped quite a few times.

Posted by: bryan at February 23, 2006 01:54 AM

Had the same experience with that film a month ago or so... just could - not - stop watching.

Posted by: Karsten at February 23, 2006 03:29 AM

dammit david. at 1:30am last night i was about to fall asleep..needless to say, i didn't go to bed until around 3. thanks for the link. that was interesting.

Posted by: brad at February 23, 2006 07:41 AM

can't wait to check it out...
you still got any time to spare on saturday?

Posted by: frank at February 23, 2006 10:51 AM

Heh, sorry about that, Brad.

I'd known about the detonation theory for a while, and was already pretty supportive of it. But that scene where they pinpoint all the white flashes was just unbelievable. I'm sure there are plenty of 'logical explanations' for them that don't involve explosives, but the sum of evidence is just too great to ignore.

Frank, I'm definitely down for Saturday. I'll give you a call tomorrow (Friday) afternoon....

Posted by: Ghostboy at February 23, 2006 11:52 AM

i was most impressed w/ the footage concerning the Pentagon and the PA crash. those two instances had always struck a strange chord inside my mind, and seeing all of this evidence brought forth was very convincing. i'm watching this again tonight with my wife..she's pissed i didn't wake her up and make her watch it with me last night... ;)

Posted by: brad at February 23, 2006 12:14 PM

David, thanks for posting this--I was captivated and will spread the word.

Posted by: Zach at February 23, 2006 08:53 PM

I'm going to try to find time to watch it again this weekend and write a longer review of it.

I do wish the film had cited some opposing viewpoints, if for nothing else than to bolster its own case. I don't think it would have been hard; I looked up the contesting Popular Mechanics article that is briefly mentioned, and the points made therein are vague at best.

Posted by: Ghostboy at February 23, 2006 09:06 PM

Can't watch it now, but I'll definitely watch it ASAP. The first two minutes were utterly compelling.

Posted by: Chuck at February 23, 2006 11:32 PM

I found it somewhat persuasive in places, but it seemed that the director went into it with a specific hypothesis and simply cast doubt on the belief that Osama was responsible. There was little "positive" evidence that would support a conspiracy, even if the film underplays the conspiracy argument to some extent.

It is fascinating as a text about evidence and argument, though.

Posted by: Chuck at February 26, 2006 12:08 AM

I agree that there's not nearly enough evidence to support a specific conspiracy, but I do believe there are more than enough arrows pointing in conflicting directions to indicate that something fishy is going on.

The director (wisely) states that his hypothesis is his individual opinion, and that the actual truth will likely never come to light. What's important, however, is that the evidence which lead him to form that opinion, detailed throughout the film, is more than ample to consider reviewing and perhaps revising their own.

Posted by: Ghostboy at February 26, 2006 12:26 AM