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Huffington Post blogger Steve Rosenbaum writes:

Now, maybe its just me, or maybe its the fact that I was close enough to the attacks to have it burned into my brain -- but as the Sandman attacks the city, and knocks a huge construction crane off it's base -- i found myself stunned. Images of a New York skyscraper with a gash in its side, with people hanging on for dear life... then slowly sliding out of the buildings now crippled facade. The dreadful slow-motion fall of one of the film's damsels in distress. Of courses, in the movie, Spiderman swings in at the last minute and breaks her fall -- a fairy tale ending. But in real life, there was no such superhero. And for New York, images of burning buildings and falling bodies are far too real to be left to the realm of entertainment.

He concludes by advocating greater sensitivity by Hollywood filmmakers on images that inadvertently mirror 9/11.

I also noted the 9/11 imagery and the Marvel Comics treatment of 9/11 in its 2001 comics, and outlined a disturbing allegorical reading of the film that would suggest the imagery is far from inadvertent.

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