Out of the Clear Blue Sky

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Sorry, but that is what this is. As stopped watching as soon as one of the bosses said, we lost, 658, the NYFD only lost 300 and something, are you kidding me, those brave men ran into a building they more than likely knew they would not leave to SAVE lives, big difference.

Do not waste your time on this turkey.I started to watch this so called documentary on Netflix and I did not finish.Howard Lutnick is a man that I had never heard of.Howard Lutnick is a man that gets around and Howard Lutnick impresses me as a man who likes being the center of attention.The Larry King interview was tough for me to finish watching because Mr.Lutnick did not come across to me as sincere.It is all about him and his wife.Forget about the people who died and their families.I get the impression that this show is the Howard Lutnick show.There are tons and tons of show and specials about the 9/11 attacks and most of them are self serving.This is one of the worst.A total waste of time.

Like almost everybody else, I've seen a lot of documentaries about 9/11 but somehow I'd missed this one. It provides a different perspective on the World Trade Center attacks, as it focuses on the largest group of victims — the employees of Cantor Fitzgerald. The documentary is not, primarily, about the deaths. Why they happened is never mentioned. Other than some brief shots of the planes hitting the towers, the film never mentions how they died. 658 people went to work that morning on the top five floors of one of the towers. They all died. That's about all that's said about that. The movie, instead, is about what happened after: later that morning, the next day, the next week, the next months, the next decade. Interviews with the family members — parents, spouses, siblings of those who died — give you an insight into the completely disorienting grief that they experienced, and shows you how people's attitudes towards the company changed over time. But the movie is particularly about how the company responded to the disaster of having two-thirds of its employees killed in a single day. Two quite improbable things happened. First, the company survived its first week after 9/11, somehow got back to business a couple days afterward making trades with a skeleton crew. I'd actually have liked to know more about how that was accomplished because it's darned impressive. And second, the company rather quickly came up with a plan to help the families of those who died — and it carried out that plan. There's some pretty interesting stuff here about the response of a major company to an unprecedented challenge that, yes, threatens the existence of the company, but which involves a lot more than business. I won't say more about this, but be sure to watch to the very end — especially if you question the bona fides of the filmmaker. I was quietly moved at several points during the film, but I didn't get choked up until the end, when the filmmaker reveals her own connection with her subject matter. It's a very well-made documentary, and if I may put it this way, it is truly dramatic and literary. This is not a story about simple, pure heroism like the firefighters (and many others) displayed that day. It's a story about complex people responding to a complex and in many ways downright distasteful challenge.

Trailer—Out of the Clear Blue Sky

Out of the Clear Blue Sky