This a third-hand description of a film shot by two french filmmakers who happened to be making a documentary about the FDNY on 9/11. They shot film inside the WTC. here's a preview:

"Entering the lobby [of Tower One]," says Jules, "I saw two bodies burning on the floor. One was screaming, a woman's scream. The jet fuel had come down through the elevator shafts and had created a fireball in the lobby. Time stood still. It was the first time I had seen someone about to die. The windows had all been blown out. The marble had come off the walls. In about five, 10 minutes, we hear what sounds like explosions. A firefighter immediately says, 'We got jumpers.' People were leaping from such a height that, as they touches the ground, they disintegrated. Right in front of us, outside the lobby windows. And with each loud boom, every firefighter would shudder."

This 2 hour film will premier on CBS in March.

can't forget it like some people forget slavery and all the wars up to Vietnam.

This absolutely needs to be shown and it should be shown uncensored.

It happened. I see nothing wrong with a documentary.

reminds me of a couple of the accounts I have..

well, mainly the beginning of the 2nd account..

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ugh.

by showing it so soon. I have a frien who is still a basketcase from it! Just a bit of compassion wuold be greatly appreciated!


I know, if you don't like don't watch, but do you think the news won't be all over this, thereby dragging back in the forefront all those horrid memories!


BTW I was uptown when this happened but will never forget the faces of those who survived the attack and were just aimlessly wandering around in shock, covered with debris from the collapse!

Couldn't it wait a bit longer?

and what you say, but, sadly, I say show it now, so several years down the road, we won't have people crying "it's a fake film", or "it's ILM at it's best", or "hell, we deserved it".

This film, besides showing the horrows of that day, shows what true heroes are made of. Men/women who risked and lost their lives to save totall strangers WITHOUT HESITATION, not those fools from hollyweird/NBA/NFL/NHL/Entertainment industry, etc. And also shows that violence in films is waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy different in violence in real life (heck, I can watch a chow-yung fat film with no problem, but, can't watch a PA gov. official eat a .44 mag)

Finally, to let you know I understand what you are saying, there is a late-night tv show that comes on in Philly on Sat. nights featuring fire-fighters. A month after 911, guess what they showed...firefighters in manhattan. Most of the firefighters they interviewed are now dead, and they stated that in the broadcast. I had a hard time watching the show and surpressing the urge to cry and swear at the bastage's to killed them!!!

Same standard applies!

It was so chilling watching some of the people being interview and having a note in the corner "Missing since 9/11".

The worst part was one of the structural engineers talking about what a plane impact would have on the towers. He also had a note "Missing since 9/11".

I'm probably going to skip watching the CBS show. It's just too soon.

Hey Peter. I do agree that this will be very difficult for people to watch - esp those that survived and/or lost loved ones on 9/11. But in the 'Real Time/Real World' age that we live in, the press, media, and networks cannot get this stuff out soon enough. I would love to be able to blame the advertisers and corporate sponsors that drive the decision to air this stuff so quickly, but it is unfortunately driven by our society's insatiable voyeuristic appetite for this type of news. If the FBI had not confiscated the tapes for their investigation, you could be damn sure that we would have seen this film months ago.

Although I agree with you in principle, I am also admitting my hypocricy in that I will be glued to the TV to see this expose.

Chris

and all the implications that go with it!

Is this what it has come to?


I will try not to see it but alas, like you I will probably be a bit hypocritcal also ;)


Did Rob MacK contact you regarding a side mirror?

Can't the corporate media ever let ANYTHING be? Is it going to be the E*TRADE evening movie? With commercial breaks every 15 minutes? Lame.

There's a big difference.

What irks me is that they're going to show it on network television... are they going to ship the sloppy seconds to fox for a "when terrorists attack" show?

The only way I would approve of it would be if they showed it, without a cheesy caucasian narrator trying to speak in a soothing, yet harsh tone.. JUST FOOTAGE, unedited.. and NO.. <b>NO</b> commercials.

It's good to be white. You're just jealous.