'War Of The Worlds' Post 9/11 Cinema

War Of The Worlds has been considered to be one most significant films of post 9/11 cinema through it's allegory and visual references. "9/11 set the tone and made it worth my time and the audience's time to see this story treated in this way." Steven Spielberg replied in an interview with David Sterritt as it's been his darkest creation because before the 9/11 attacks there was "E.T" and "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" which were very friendly.

In the first Tripod attack, we notice that once the alien starts to attack, all of the shots of the Tripods are low angles from the ground and then it cuts to a medium forward tracking shot of a cam-corder that fell to the floor. These angles highlight the importance of the way the footage of the 9/11 attacks were filmed, they were recorded in the streets and that was their only way of seeing the attacks. When the Tripods were shooting at the civilians, instead of Spielberg deciding to make it gory and violent, he decided to make a visual reference to 9/11 so that when a human was shot they exploded into grey dust/ashes,