In class on Tuesday we watch a movie about what happened on 9/11. The movie was originally supposed to be about the life at a fire-station, and the life as a fireman. It was made by two French brothers and was supposed to be about a new guy coming to the fire-station. The beginning of the movie does tell the story about how it is to be new at the station and how the new guy, Tony is waiting for his first real fire.
When the movie enters the events of 9/11, which for me was the most interesting part of it, it starts like any other day, and one of the brothers are out to train on his filming skills. Then the fire men hear a plane over, which is quite unusual on Manhattan, so they all turn and look up, and as they do they see the first plane crash into the first tower. From here the story about the firefighter’s story inside the towers begins. They rush to the first tower and are starting to make a strategy plan on how to deal with this. And here we see some both amazing and horrific footage from inside the very tower itself at the day of disaster. Later you get to see the towers from the outside, the confusion and the horrified onlookers. You get to see the towers collapsing and the coincidences that save the firefighters lives. After the towers have collapsed, you see how all the firefighters are worried that they have lost someone, and how close they really are, and how much they care about each other. At the end of the movie you will see the way the rescue missions begins and progress, how every firefighter in the city work around the clock to try to rescue a survivor, or at least retract a body from the pile of twisted metal to give the family the option to give the body a proper funeral
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The reason I liked this movie, is because you get that live, close up footage of the events, and the friendship and sorrow between firefighters and all the effort they gave under the 9/11 attacks. It really makes you respect them for all they did to save as many lives they could, and many will say they are true American heroes.
