"Pompeii: The Last Day"

[lethargic_man]

Having just watched Pompeii: The Last Day on BBC One (<plug>*; with interactive whodunnit accompaniment by Yours Truly et alii</plug>), it struck me this was rather much a portrayal of the disaster for our time. The Roman woman ordering her slaves back to work, thus causing their deaths and her own, brought to mind stories of the same thing happening during the attacks on the World Trade Center -- an impression strengthened by the subsequent portrayal of fleeing pedestrians being overtaken by clouds of smoke and dust when the first pyroclastic flow to reach Pompeii stopped just short of the town.

That's how it struck me, at least.

* Blowing my own trumpet with a sardine sordino in.