It's unfortunate that there are still people that deny that January 6th has the meaning that most normal, everyday Americans feel it has. It was an attack on our democracy from a hoard of people that thought where we all live is only THEIR country. It's not, nor will it ever be.
The documentary is made by the same filmmakers that brought us "9/11." The two French documentarians that are the only ones who recorded the first plane that went into the World Trade Center. They continued filming that day at the risk of their own lives and produced a film record that is still played on 9/11 anniversaries because it is so powerful. This film is as powerful. I don't believe they were there on January 6th to film anything, but the pieces of footage they've assembled into a coherent narrative is the only one I've seen that shows the SCOPE of what happened. There were many shots and clips that I had never seen, and I thought I'd seen them all. In addition, there were several shots that showed the actual SIZE of the crowd of rioters, and I no longer have any doubt that the people that were the subjects of the attack suffer from PTSD to this day. It frightened me a little on a TV screen. I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to have actually been in the middle of it.
I agree with other reviewers that say this should be shown in schools. It is educational and never boring. I would imagine students would find this film riveting.
People calling this biased or leftist or whatever other distractions they try to smarm into readers of their reviews are trying to make people turn away from this because it makes anyone that supports it look awfully bad.
The thing that struck me most were the continued chants of "USA! USA! USA!" while they stormed the seat of our government, as if to say that what they were doing was somehow a representation of the USA. It was only that representation to people who are dissatisfied with their government, or frankly, their own lives, and don't know how to express themselves like a citizen in a society. We STILL have a democracy despite their crass and loathsome behavior, and we don't express dissatisfaction with the government by attacking it. We vote. And they knew that before they did what they did. The insurrectionists that are still in jail were not even mentioned in this piece. And that is appropriate -- they, after all, knew what they signed up for.
A very solid 10 for me.
