Filmmaker Spike Lee has released a new eight-hour documentary series called “New York Epicenters: 9/11-20211/2. The first among four installments debuted on Sunday on HBO. The first two installments have focused on the pandemic and the last two go back to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11.
The New York Times interviewed Spike Lee through a video call. Reporter Reggie Ugwu spoke to the iconic filmmaker on several topics and the reason why he still had questions about the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings.
According to the Times, Lee said that as a New Yorker and with twenty years almost over since 9/11 as well as New York being called the “epicenter” of the pandemic, it was natural for him to combine the two events to make a documentary.
Spike Lee also said that he still had questions about how and why the Twin Towers fell. He said that he hoped that Congress held a congressional hearing about 9/11. He said that he had put the information in the movie, and he would let people decide for themselves as he respected the intelligence of the audience.
When asked why he didn’t say the same for other issues including whether the vaccine was poison or whether Joe Biden was legitimately elected he said people were going to think what they think. He pointed out how people had called him
- racist after he released “Do the Right Thing”
- antisemitic after “Mo Better Blues
- misogynistic after “She’s Gotta Have It.”
He also noted that he was “still here” after about 40 years of film making. Spike Lee interviewed many known and unknown faces to make the documentary. Some of them included
- Senator Chuck Schumer
- Mayor Bill de Blasio
- Rosie Perez
- health care workers
- firefighters
- activists
- survivors
- conspiracy group –Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
The New York Police Department refused to participate. Spike Lee interviewed over 200 people including politicians, actors, health care workers, activists and survivors and acted as a conductor to bring forth a piece of documented history that is both compelling and questioning.
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