Posted on 03/11/2002 5:53:56 AM PST by veronica
You may be right .. But I also can't help but think of a story I read once of how after W.W.II .. Many German people did not believe the stories of Jews being killed .. That is until these people were brought to the Concentration Camps to see for their own eyes. Many were horrified at what they saw and were sickened
So that is why I made the comment I did
But I agree if that doesn't get them to understand .. nothing will and God help them
Oh heck I learned more from The History Channel then I ever learned from the Philadelphia Public School System
I think you need to relax... while I agree the true horror of that day needs to be seen, not just heard and described, I don't feel for one moment the reality of what happened on 9/11 was lost by the film maker conciously not turning his camera right to show 2 people on fire, or to focus on the body parts.
This documentary at its heart was about the firefighters of that particular fire house... it was a story of humanity in the face of unbelievable evil. It was told by and shot from the perspective of the firefighters. I think it was done very well. I was not crazy about the occassional and pointless narration, the work stood for itself, you didn't need Deniro voicing over every 15 or 20 minutes for 1 or 2 sentences.. it was out of place and added nothing. The cameraman and the firefighters told the story.. I don't know why they had him narrating most of the time.
I don't think we need to see the body in the street to know what happened, the sickening thud and the words of the firefighters themselves at the recognition of what it was made the point plainly. You didn't need to see the macabre of body parts, the words of 1 firefighter, ("this was 2 110 story office buildings, and in the rubble there isn't a desk, there isn't a chair, there isn't a phone.. the biggest piece of a phone I found was a part of a keypad about this big" (paraphrased) left little to the imagination, as did anothers "it was raining body parts"...
I do agree the photo evidence of this even needs to get out, as macabe and sickening as it is, but this documentary was not the place for it. It would not have added one iota to the impact of what was going on.
Anytime I see an movie and the WTC comes into scene, I find myself transfixed to the point where I can't pay attention to anything else going on in that particular scene.
I was channel-surfing the other night and I came across the closing credits to some old Barbra Streisand film from the 1970s. As the credits rolled, lower Manhattan was filmed from a helicopter and the Towers were standing prominently throughout the scene. I found myself watching the credits in their entirety just to stare at the WTC.
Unbelievable.
I'm sure they'll wind up on the internet in due time.
I hope your words are not directed at me because those words I posted aren't mine, nor do I agree with them.
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