Telling Nicholas : 9/11 Documentary..

JonathanAnon · 09-09-2010 12:22am #1

I cant believe this thing won awards... The premise for this is that a young boy's mother is missing after 9/11, and follows the subsequent days where they dont really know what to tell him.. Eventually they discover that Nicholas' mother has died and they have to tell him...

So how do they tell him ?... They get his father to take him to a bench on the side of the road, where a secret camera has been set to film him as he's being told .... Then the father (who has been mic'd up) tells him his mother has died, and wont be coming home ... as the other relations are listening to every word with headsets... sickening ...

ToniTuddle · 09-09-2010 12:26am

What channel was this on?!

JonathanAnon · 09-09-2010 12:26am

RTE ONE... just finished..

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:31am

I just flicked over for the last ten minutes or so... bizarre TV.
Was that the dead womans son who did the 'news report' with the mic at the end?
I think even the thought process behind doing a documentary like that is a bit... odd.
Invasive and disturbing in a tragic situation.

ToniTuddle · 09-09-2010 12:33am

Why would you even.....uurgghh that's his son!

Will have to watch this when it is uploaded to RTE player. Think it takes a day or so?

The Paws · 09-09-2010 12:34am

I couldnt watch the rest of it - I find it too sad. Was the boy ok in the end???

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:35am

I only saw a very small part of it, and that was more than enough, thanks.
It really seemed like that poor little kid was being treated like a puppet, not sure who was pulling the strings.
There was, when I turned it on, a woman lying the the floor with people hovering over her and mentioning smelling salts, who was she??

The Paws · 09-09-2010 12:37am

I dont really know - "she" could be the boy's grandmother???

JonathanAnon · 09-09-2010 12:38am

Neadine wrote: »

I just flicked over for the last ten minutes or so... bizarre TV. Was that the dead womans son who did the 'news report' with the mic at the end?

Yeah that was Nicholas .. Him saying "this is a memorial for my mam" kind of gave it away... sorry, Neadine

Documentary was in similarly subjective and sanctimonious style to what Michael Moore does... Shame on the people who exploited that young kid's emotions for the sake of making a damned film... I mean at what point does somebody think "hey that kid's mother is missing, following his emotions as each day pass could make a good movie"... Sickening stuff..

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:44am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Yeah that was Nicholas .. Him saying "this is a memorial for my mam" kind of gave it away... sorry, Neadine

Documentary was in similarly subjective and sanctimonious style to what Michael Moore does... Shame on the people who exploited that young kid's emotions for the sake of making a damned film... I mean at what point does somebody think "hey that kid's mother is missing, following his emotions as each day pass could make a good movie"... Sickening stuff..

Hmmmm, well thanks for pointing that out!!!!!
Wasn't initially paying much attention to what was on - I'm blaming sleep deprivation for lack of observation and poor concentration!!
I agree, totally, with what you are saying about the exploitation of that poor child, but it looked like there were several members of his family involved in the the filming, who would want to be followed around by a camera and strangers in that sort of situation? That kid had adults in his life who were supposed to be making decision for his well being.

JonathanAnon · 09-09-2010 12:46am

http://www.tellingnicholas.com/

Won an Emmy in 2003, if Seinfeld winning hadn't devalued the Emmys enough.

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:47am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I cant believe this thing won awards...

Just out of curiosity, what sort of awards did this win??
I'd like to nominate it for a Bad Taste Award.

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:48am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

http://www.tellingnicholas.com/

Won an Emmy in 2003, if Seinfeld winning hadn't devalued the Emmys enough.

Well, thanks for answering that question, before I had actually answered it!

JonathanAnon · 09-09-2010 12:49am

Bet you thought Derren Browne was good until you met me..

Anyway I've checked off everything on my rant list, and it's time for bed to think up more things to give out about.. nite.

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:50am

My current ability to process thoughts on any level is rather limited!:rolleyes:

Richard Dower · 09-09-2010 12:55am

Neadine wrote: »

My current ability to process thoughts on any level is rather limited!:rolleyes:

Was it ever anything more then limited?

Neadine · 09-09-2010 12:59am

Richard Dower wrote: »

Was it ever anything more then limited?

There was a time that I would have been deeply offended at such an implication, but that sounds far too much like hard work at this time of night.

I'll have you know it was vast and varied, ahh them were the days.

Yillan · 09-09-2010 3:17am

I watched it til the first ad break. My first impression was that this family were a little off for allowing this man to come in to their lives at this devastating time to make his film, but considering their fragile state, he took a lot of liberty to force him on a confused grief stricken family.

That's not to say the family weren't dysfunctional though. The bit where they're talking about how the father of the boy is unfit was bad enough, but then when one of them blamed the woman's death on the fact that she rang a sister once the first building was hit. That sent the sister into a catatonic state. Worst catatonic state I've ever seen. She starts writing out answers to questions she's being asked. Sorry. Is she catatonic or just incapable of speech? Are you hungry? Yes. Well there's **** all wrong with you then... YOU KILLED YOUR SISTER!!!!

I figured they might have wired up the father for the big reveal... "And the winner of Big Brother WTC is....... Your Mother is Dead!!"

The premise was ****ed as well... "I saw a picture of this woman who was missing so I went to see the family".... what luck. How many other families told you to where to go, before you found suitable saps. Or were you turning down families because they weren't 'emmy material' .

Just Americans who will do anything for fame. How can we turn this terrible situation around to make something positive out of it? It brought our family closer together? No that's not it. What about we commission some two-bit director to make a movie about our grief? Now that's using your head

Telling Nicholas : 9/11 Documentary..

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