extremely loud and incredibly close

i saw the movie extremely loud and incredibly close  on thursday. it was very good. at first i didn't want to see it because it is based on a book by the same name by jonathan safran foer that i found incredibly boring and extremely difficult to read. i'm glad that i saw the movie in the end. the movie is about a little boy whose father dies in the world trade center . the little boy struggles to make sense of things and also to to find the owner of a key his father had.
the little boy refers to 9/11 as the "worst day" which i find interesting. of course it was the worst day. the hardest thing at the time of 9/11 is that they just called it 9/11 instead of giving it an adjective.this movie is somewhat whimsical because it is being told from the eyes of a child.
the film brought back memories of 9/11 and how the world changed . i  remember waking up 9/12/01 and thinking 'i'm still here, now what?'. just as there are children who are now nine years old who have never met their fathers there are also those who were  children  then who are now in their early twenties. these are children who grew up in a post 9/11 world. it is sad, but this is reality. unfortunately you can never go back.