Here are some examples of the subliminal messages that the imagery in the documentary is used to convey:
Narrator: " but some will just not accept the official account, no matter how distressing this might be to the victims families"
IMAGERY: A raggdoll lying on a bench.
ASSOCIATIONS: Brings to mind a mourge, the doll becomes an effigy off a dead child
The narrators comments and the imagery implies that the "conspiracy theorists" are insensitive to
the grief of the victims families
This is repeated throughout the film.
IMAGERY: Internet sites filmed right from the screen are flashing by again drifting in and out of focus, through out the film.
ASSOCIATION: Conspiracy theories fester on the internet, ( but are not real )
LIGHT VS DARKNESS
Dylan, Jim and Alex are all filmed in more or less dark rooms.
Jim Fetzer is introduced with a view over a nocturnal suburbia.
Most of the other paricipants are filmed in light and airy enviroments
ASSOCIATION: Conspiracy theories fester in the dark, light dispels them!
THE BIRD EYE AND THE FISH EYE.
prior to presenting someone objecting the conspiracy claims, we are shown bird eye views over cityscapes or the
Hollywood mountains, this symbolism prepares the viewer for the clear sighted overview that mongers of bad science and
X-files fiction writers are supposed to give us.
At the end, we se passenger planes about to take off, to make a conection to the last trip the passengers on the 4 airplanes ever made.
We take off with one of the airplanes, leaving the conspiracies behind, accepting the "painful truth" in the fiction wrtiters words.
The imagery of conspiracies are framed differently, the camera plunges beneath the surface of a lake, pages are sinking to the
bottom, together with the myths,
ASSOCIATION: Conspiracy theories lingers beneath the surface or underground.
The wide angle lens is used througout the film, but it conveys different messages.
A close upp wide angle view of an agitated Jim Fetzer makes him out as the conspiracy bogeyman of the film
When the same teqnique is used on David Colburn and the pilot, it is to convey a feeling of monumentality and authority
David is also presented with lots of books about 911, and piles off paper, on his desk, suggesting his thorough investigation.
We are presented with a dramatization or " reconstruction " as they call it of what happened at the
North American Aerospace Defence command as they recieved the first phonecalls about possible hijackings.
The narrator is telling us the official story as we see a dramatized reconstruction off the events, the imagery
suggests confusion and desorientation, thereby "explaining" why everything went wrong on that day.
Running the story and the imagery side by side , we are made to believe that this is what actually happened.
. Of course the passport was there. I meant the claims about the passport surviving the inferno.
