9/11 : Stories in Fragments- documentary
After watching a 51 minute documentary about September 11th, sixteen years ago I saw the event differently. I didn't really like to think about this event and it seems like no one does, after thinking about it I never learned about it in school and no one really talked about what happened. This might be because its controversial and people have different opinions on it, but I think it needs to be addressed. This documentary explained to me how quick and abrupt this event was.
It was five minutes and fifty seconds into the documentary when I started to tear up, but I started really crying at fourteen minutes in. The stories about the event were so eye opening and I couldn't image being in any of the situations talked about in the movie. A bystander said she woke up her husband and stared filming the damage, another woman said she got her friend and ran to the streets when the first tower got hit. A man was walking down the street to get to work when his building got hit, so he immediately started getting in contact with his coworkers. A man said he went into the streets after, and saw a single fireman walking though the ash and said he looked like a ghost. All of these people are so brave to me, I feel like I wouldn't have been able to move, like a deer in headlights. A scene of a distorted piece of plane is what made it really hit me. In the scene they were talking about how they saw things falling from the sky, which turned out to be people. The documentary also mentioned a lot about people forgetting. A man said at the time he couldn't imagine someone forgetting such an important moment but with time everyone forgets. A section in the National Museum of American History was donated to artifacts from that day, so people could remember. I don't understand how that day could be forgotten, but I guess that's why we say "Never forget".
It was five minutes and fifty seconds into the documentary when I started to tear up, but I started really crying at fourteen minutes in. The stories about the event were so eye opening and I couldn't image being in any of the situations talked about in the movie. A bystander said she woke up her husband and stared filming the damage, another woman said she got her friend and ran to the streets when the first tower got hit. A man was walking down the street to get to work when his building got hit, so he immediately started getting in contact with his coworkers. A man said he went into the streets after, and saw a single fireman walking though the ash and said he looked like a ghost. All of these people are so brave to me, I feel like I wouldn't have been able to move, like a deer in headlights. A scene of a distorted piece of plane is what made it really hit me. In the scene they were talking about how they saw things falling from the sky, which turned out to be people. The documentary also mentioned a lot about people forgetting. A man said at the time he couldn't imagine someone forgetting such an important moment but with time everyone forgets. A section in the National Museum of American History was donated to artifacts from that day, so people could remember. I don't understand how that day could be forgotten, but I guess that's why we say "Never forget".
I like you approaching the emotional aspects of the September 11th attacks. It really did pain the American people when their way of life was betrayed by terrorists. Now you can't even bring certain electronics on flights, and security at airports has ramped up since then also.
ReplyDeleteI watched the same documentary! I felt the same way when it mentioned that people could forget. I was shocked by the fact that someone could forget such a tragic yet important time in American history.
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