• Published:March 11th, 2008
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Blog Comments, Movies, Politics

So by now you’re all aware — right? — that 2007 Best Actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard apparently said some things awhile back that indicate she A) believes the WTC attacks were orchestrated by the building owners and B) isn’t all that sure about this moon landing business, either. Still with me? Good.

Okay, so Times Online correspondent Charlie Bremner broached the subject on his blog last week, and it turns out his readers hold strong, considered opinions both for and against Ms. Cotillard and her worldview… that is, when they aren’t misinterpreting her as saying 9/11 never happened, as Gail Johnson seemingly did:

Another relative of mine SAW the planes hit the towers. It was the full jet fuel and where they hit the towers that caused the “implosion”. But I’m sure she feels that the Hollicoust didn’t happen too!

Lisa offers a morsel of welcome perspective…

So she made these comments a year ago before anyone had ever really heard of her? Ms. Cotillard is perfectly entitled to think and believe what she likes - as a great many are doing even in America. This “siutation” is being blown all out of proportion.

… which in a just and caring universe would shut the thread right down. But this is the Internet, where the laser-like focus of debaters such as Little Big Horn holds sway:

(I’ve even been heard that a consequential amount of people nowadays believe that the Universe has been created 7000 years ago in 6 days by a Super Daddy praising capitalism, that His Son Jesus saved humanity (even non-monotheist vegetarians) from all sins, that real life/world was indeed after death, and not on the web and, please believe me… that the Pope’s chasuble is cleaned with a special new synthesis powder that makes water totally useless. It’s an acquaintance’s Swiss friend, banker in Vatican, who told me. No article about that?)

One anonymous metallurgist/construction expert/grammarian leaps to Ms. Cotillard’s defense:

In the history of Construction & Engineering, no steel structure or building has EVER collapsed because of fire. WTC buillding collapsed, bur fire was not the cause.

If that doesn’t convince you, heed the words of no less an Authority than Yah Weh, whom you’d think ought to have the last word on the subject:

If you think some `errorist` guys from a cave on the other side of the world had all of that happen, there is something wrong with you….US Neo-Cons (Fas..) absolutely utterly complicit in these events. Think Israel. If you think this is outside the bounds of reality, you clearly do not know much of modern history, particularly US Military history. Enjoy your awakening.

Naturally, many more comments follow, including poetry and… I guess you’d call it philosophy?