The
Cave WHOA/10
I
can't give this a normal rating like I do with other films. I went to
AFI Fest with Coco again. We do this every year and I told her “We
are gonna see some sad ass movies...” Well, we saw The Cave which
was very sad but had some humor in it and I genuinely loved seeing
the way the hospital staff worked together. Some scenes reminded me
of when I would get trapped in the emergency room when I worked at
the hospital and there would be shouting, bleeding, and everyone
needed to be a well oiled machine to save lives. Except I have never
in my life had to worry about a jet dropping bombs on where I was
working. Holy shit, the bombs in this documentary.
The
focuses on a doctor named Amani Ballor who is working in Ghouta
during the Syrian Civil War. I admit that I have hear dof it but know
nothing about it except that it is happening and that wrestler Sami
Zayn runs a charity to help there as he is of Syrian decent. That's
pretty much it. But after watching this I will be taking a deep dive
into learning the history of this. This is hard to watch at times as
she specializes in children and there is a lot of images of children
in various stages of pain and death. Every time a jet flew by people
would wait to hear the explosions that got progressively closer. An
explosion would be heard and then moments later more injured people
were being brought in, many of them kids. Food was getting low.
Medical supplies were getting low. Space was getting low. It was
like...fuck!
Along
with all the bullshit this hospital that is located underground
through a series of caverns and caves they have to deal with of all
things sexism! At one point a husband who wants his wife to get
medicine that can not be retrieved demands to speak to a male doctor
and says that a woman can not and should not be in charge. I was like
“Dude...come on.” She gets messages from her father and he sends
videos telling Dr. Amani that she should come home to her family and
take care of her plants. It ends with her not knowing what she wants
to do after finally being forced to leave after a chemical attack.
The way this was filmed it makes it feel like you are invisible in
the hospital and actually suffering with these people which sucks.
Not that the documentary sucks. It is informative and so hardcore
that if a film was made with this premise and the situations that
occurred you'd say they were overdoing it. Except this is real and
happening right now.
I
can't do a review for American Factory because a fire alarm went off
forty minutes in.
"The
Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation is a US-based,
non-political, non-religious, medical relief organization that
provides millions of Syrians with urgent and life-saving medical
services. SAMS Foundation is a U.S. registered 501 (c) (3) charity.
All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law."
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