The Y2K Armageddon was a bust. Nope, the computers ran just fine when the clock struck 2000. But a year later, everything changed.
When the planes flew into the Twin Towers, our country was brought to its knees. We still haven’t recovered, but movies have helped us get through our trauma together.
War movies took on new meaning in the early 2000s, and movies specifically about 9/11 hit home. We will “never forget,” and movies help us to remember.Coming together as a community defined movies in other genres, too.
Romance, race relations, environmental activism, coming-of-age stories: the best movies of this decade often had an underlying community message.
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