Another thing I especially do not need is to hear our president take advantage of this tragedy to score political points and to try to drag us into a war so he can get rich on Iraq’s oil.
Yes, if we are talking about the firefighter documentary “9/11”, shot by the French brothers who followed a probationary firefighter around for four months and caught many of the day’s events on film, I will watch it, and tape it, and would like the opportunity to purchase it on DVD.
It was the best thing I’ve seen on television in the last 10 years, and maybe the best thing ever.
The standard rehash coverage will probably be unavoidable if I turn the set on, but that’s ok. I am still blindingly angry over what happened, and if people get fired up about it again that’s just fine.
BBC are showing the 9/11 firemen documentary.
Is it as good as the above poster says?
Absolutely, although “good” is sort of a strange term to describe it. It was the most powerful of the September 11th documentaries I’ve seen, and I think I’ve seen a lot of them. This was mostly due, for me, to the relationship between the brothers and what they were going through that day trying to document the Towers collapsing, the reactions of the firemen to the disaster, and focusing on filming while each believing that the other brother had perished in the collapse.
And while this is off-topic, I watched the “Reflections From Ground Zero” piece hosted by Spike Lee on Showtime last night, and would recommend it. It’s a collection of short films produced by students at the NYU film school, and cover a variety of reactions to September 11th, from childrens’ perspectives, steelworkers at Ground Zero, the story of one family’s loss, and even what I saw as criticism of the commercialization of the Ground Zero site.