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kentauros

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9. That was a strong intuition you had, then.
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 01:02 AM
Jan 2015

I know it's not anything that can be used to warn anyone, but I would be curious how many other people felt that leading up to the tragedy.

The documentary relies heavily on security camera footage, most of which is in color and records far more frames than we often see in the US. The rest is made up of excellent interviews with the victims that lived, including several of the five policemen that went in (along with two licensed-to-be-armed civilians.) Those seven people are shown to be the big heroes of the event as they got out most of the people still alive, and found the ones that had been shot and got help to them.

However, the footage does show people getting shot multiple times as the terrorist go around making sure people are dead. Some of the things you hear in the interviews are as chilling as the footage, if not more so.

I will admit that as much as I refuse to rubberneck when there's an accident on the road, some things like this documentary just draw me in. It is a highly compelling 65 minutes, even with the horror of the event and killings going on. Maybe because I feel such a strong compassion for them that I want to be there helping them, even if it's long gone in the past.

The documentary also shows how inept the SWAT and military forces were compared to the extreme bravery of those policemen and several civilians.

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