As for pure empirical fear, 11 minutes Few match non-fiction, utilizing an array of cell phone and body camera videos to put the viewer directly in the middle of the world. mass shooting Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017. Hotel in Mandalay Bay. Boasting commentary from Jason Aldean, who was on stage as the event’s headliner when the madness erupted, the four-part documentary series (September 27, Paramount+) directed by Jeff Zimbalist explores that disaster. It is, figuratively speaking, a long portrait of hell that never ends, both in the minds of the victims and in America.
11 minutes He takes issue with not naming the perpetrators of this heinous atrocity, arguing that doing so would only lead to glorification and imitation, and also argues that the only individual truly worthy of being remembered is his innocent. A victim and a hero who risked his life… Save as many as you can. Indeed, anyone interested in the man’s identity can find it online in Heartbeat. There’s not much you can collect by focusing on. However, the much bigger omission is a serious discussion of the never-ending public frenzy for firearms. With the exception of a fleeting five-minute segment in Episode 3, a “debate” over guns was presented via television news clips in which the parents of victim Carrie Parsons opposed the offensive weapon and the use of bump stocks (which -from automatic to fully automatic), the series avoids blatantly addressing the most easily preventable elements of this massacre.
11 minutes Fourteen AR-15 rifles, eight AR-10 type rifles, a single-bolt action rifle and a revolver found in the shooter’s Mandalay Bay room. If anything, the footage of the scene paints a deafening portrait of the carnage that has emerged from our current situation. The sight and sound of screaming men and women huddled together for protection, running through venue grounds as bullets hurtle through the air, hiding behind cars and walls, frantically carrying wounded past (and over) to cops and EMTs on the scene. It offers an up-close and personal view of being in the middle of a mass shooting that feels akin to a war zone, of course.
That material is harrowing, and edited together to provide a clear, chronological, multiple-perspective snapshot of how things went down during the attack. 11 minutes It is based on the recollections of a wide range of attendees, police officers and medical personnel who endured this horror, many of which are accompanied by actual video and audio of them telling their stories. While the former’s boyfriend Parker Max (whose father was part of the corresponding SWAT team) struggled to survive, Kelly Pollard valiantly tried to bring her friend Kathy back to safety. It’s one of his heartbreaking stories from stage to street to nearby Sunrise Hospital. At Sunrise Hospital, doctors dealt with an overwhelming influx of seriously injured patients, and the white floors were quickly covered in blood.
Of those stories, the most influential is that of Jonathan Smith, a black man who faced discrimination shortly before the shooting (a man who said he was surprised that “your kind” liked country music). ), bravely evacuated people from the area, a bullet hit him in the chest, and he was eventually rescued by white San Diego police officer Tom McGrath. in his trials 11 minutes It captures the ugly and evocative of America in the 21st century. Police run towards danger to protect helpless people. Strangers put the well-being of others ahead of their own interests, take great risks, and have tremendous consequences. And civilians have shown perseverance, courage and resilience despite incredible circumstances. Natalie Grammett is a breast cancer survivor whose jaw was shattered by a round from a gunman’s rifle.
“Of those stories, the most influential is that of Jonathan Smith, a black man who faced discrimination shortly before the shooting… who bravely evacuated people from the area and took a bullet to the chest. , was eventually rescued by a white San Diego police officer, Tom McGrath. .“
As for Aldean, he makes a few remarks about the experience of being guided by a tour bus himself, and a few clichés about the healing of togetherness. Even more intense is the story of deejay Silver, who discovered that his 1-year-old son was with his nanny on the same 32nd floor as the shooter. The result is now a well-known fact that 11 minutes Attempts by concertgoers to leave the venue (hidden in the shadows of Mandalay Bay, making it a veritable shooting range), police officers struggling to help themselves and others The state, and how everyone is trying to understand the meaning is drawn. meaningless. Meanwhile, his CCTV snippets of the gunman arriving at the hotel and playing poker (which seems to have been his main occupation) are a haunting calm before the storm against the havoc he has instigated. provides a contrast of Like back then.
11 minutesIts value lies in its immediacy, highlighting the nightmare caused by our reluctance to put in place systems to keep military-grade weapons out of civilian hands. Still, director Zimbalist’s decision to focus on Anarchy, which you are, and, by extension, to let his material do the talking, also seems a bit evasive. In the face of such dire monsters, the documentary series’ indifference to more vocally addressing this avoidable source of suffering is made evident in the people who lost their lives on that day, and in its memorial coda. As is the case with all the others who died in the many similar tragedies that followed.