memorable decades later

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2004)

Like some of the other commentators I watched this movie with subtitles on channel 4 at 3am one weekday in 1993/4? with my then teenage son. The TV guide rated it as one star. (Always a chance then it might be really good.) Dave was studying for his ALevel Media Studies but we didn't really need an excuse. Our family are all voracious consumers. So we stayed up late and We watched.... This is a long movie and by the end we both sodden with tears, every part our body's anguished by the sheer visceral immediacy of the horror. This is a truly remarkable film experience. The news of the Beslan School massacre recently reminded me of how we had felt and I had to ring Dave to get the title but he remembered it too. He said it was the most 'impactful?' film hes seen I am so glad other film buffs on this site feel that too, as no one I know personally, saw it that night.