Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The story of a boy who lost his farther on 9/11.  But that isn’t tragic enough.  The boy has to be autistic. His grandfather has to be a victim of post traumatic stress himself. And the images we see lead us to believe that the boy’s father was one of the jumpers-someone who chose to fall to their death rather than burn alive. 9/11 is the foundation of the story, but the real tale is how our young hero deals with the tragedy.  Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a fragmented film with lots of flashbacks to both the good old…

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