The Pop-Culture Closure

I was wondering, amidst all the reality shows; what to wear, what not to wear, who says the darnedest things, how someone miraculously survived sliding off a roof while they were shovelling it, how babies can shoot peas out of their noses and win $10,000 for doing it, how people can invent things that are too ridiculous to entertain or mention, how we can watch the sweetest proposals caught on tape, do we gain closure on events that affected us all?

During the thirty eight minutes of previews to "The Devil Wears Prada" was the one preview that surely stopped everyones breath, even for just a moment. World Trade Center, the movie. In the hours it seemed to have passed in mere seconds, we were all brought back to that day. Are we ready to relive it? Are we prepared to submerse ourselves into the images we had nightmares about?

After all great events there is inevitably some director that thinks it's a good time to document all the facts... whether it's Baby Erica's story, the first organ transplant, Apollo 13, the Sago mine disaster, the Holocaust, 9/11. When do we know we're ready? And if we are, do we get closure?