Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing

I really enjoyed movie, not only because It was well made but also it had a full visual and real documents from the event. It was surprising to me, that the capture of those criminals was so difficult. In my country we only knew about the bombs and the fact that they were captured and the wife who didn't say anything. I hope you enjoy the movie. Regards.

I watched this documentary last night and was deeply moved by the courage of the people affected by the terrorist attack on April 15, 2013, at the Boston Marathon. Watching and listening to their personal stories elicited a range of emotions: fear and outrage; sympathy and pride. The filmmakers who put together this documentary were thorough and factual; sympathetic yet never crossed the line into melodrama. The actions of the Boston Police Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and all other government agencies that sorted through the astronomical amount of video and other data (something like 500 terabytes, but I could be wrong on that number) amazed me and filled me with pride. The fact that the officers and agents were able to identify and find the bombers was awe inspiring. So was the fact that everyone transported to a hospital lived. I think 90 people were transported to area hospitals within 30 minutes of the bombing. The bombing was religiously motivated and that's extremely frightening to me. There have been religious wars for thousands of years but now it's on United States soil. I highly recommend this documentary to everyone.

As many of you will recall the Patriot Day bombing was a bombing and murder of a policeman in Boston carried out by two brothers from the Islamic area of Dagestan. If you don't know the region, is boarding Azerbaijani and Chechnya. And the two perpetrators were half-Chechen and half-Avar. That one of the IMDB contributors listed as a keyword "Domestic terrorism" as in perpetuated by Americans is really indicative of some of the misunderstandings surrounding this event. Neither of these two perps were American. The older brother, Tamerlan, specifically never attempted to gain American citizenship, and traveled to Dagistan, Chechnya and Pakistan. In fact the older brother committed seven crimes of violence, four of which he was arrested for and was NEVER REFERED TO ICE by the Massachusetts authorities. ICE would have deported Tamerlan but the Mass authorities intertidally were refusing to cooperate with ICE. On Sept 11, 2011, the then tenth anniversary of the 2001 911 attack's, Tamerlane Tsarneav, shortly after returning from a trip to Turkey, in a triple murder, slit the throats of two Jewish men and their roommate, nearly decapitating them. This was as you may recall during the period of ISIS doing the same thing in Syria. This was after years of crimes in the US, many of which had an Islamic element, leaving three murder victims, maybe six, and four assaults' victims -- and that is in addition to the Patriot day bombing and assassination of a cop. They younger bother was also born in Dagistan. he did gain American citizenship shortly before the attack, but under US law his citizenship application was VOID due to the fact that the was already planning a crime at the time, making his oath invalid and perjurous. In fact he appears to have applied for US citizenship solely to obtain firearms and explosives, making him about as "American" as Mohammed Atta. The 2011 search warrant related to suspicion of Tsarenav on the Islamacist based murder of the Jewish men in Waltham, unsealed in April 2019 as a result of FOI show that their crimes were hardly "domestic terrorisms." And that the victims you see in this documentary are not the only victims.

Well-made documentary about the Boston bombing that took place during the Boston marathon in 2013. With tons of video-footage covering most aspects the actual marathon, the bombing and even the chase of the suspects afterwards etc, but it's first and foremost a documentary about the victims and about overcoming a tragedy. Focusing primarily on some of the survivors dealing with the aftermath, not only physical issues such as losing limbs but mental as well and we get to follow them around on a day to day basis as they try to piece their lives back together. It gets very emotional at times and it was a struggle occasionally to hold the tears back. So yeah most definitely worth watching.

I went into this with the expectation of getting an account of the lead-up to the bombing, the bombing it self, and the subsequent investigation. These things are covered a little. Those parts were well done. However, the documentary spends the vast majority of the time talking about the injuries to a few specific victims. That was interesting, initially. But it dragged on too much, and started to feel repetitive. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if all of personal stuff was segmented to one continuous timespan. Then I could just fast forward. That was not easy to do here, because it frequently jumped back and forth between stories about injuries, and information about the events and investigation.