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The Film File
The Port Authority cops in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" emerge at first light from their houses in Clifton, New Jersey, and Goshen, New York, and head for the city. As other officers make their way into town from Staten Island and Brooklyn, Stone gives us lovely shots of empty Manhattan streets at dawn--the episode is like the quiet orchestral prelude to an epic opera. We get the point of the anticipatory opening: the incomparable urban island couldn't flourish as it does without the talent and the labor of the communities pouring into it. Then comes a surprise: the men in "World Trade Center" leave their families ...