I saw the "Surviving Black Hawk Down" documentation from #Netflix and it is quite vague and ends with dubious opinions 😑

source: netflix.com/ro-en/title/817377…
Black Hawk Down (2001) Movie: themoviedb.org/movie/855-black…

The first episode begins with a good setting, as it is announced that the whole thing will also be illuminated from a Somali perspective with Somali film material. It was new to me that a school was right in the battle zone and that's why some women ran into the danger zone to save their children from the school despite the heavy shooting. However, the Somali film material is rather sparse and very noisy, so that almost exclusively scenes from the feature film from 2001 are used to underline the witness statements. The battlefield is presented well, so that the viewer can keep an overview but at the same time understand the confusion of the soldiers on the ground, who had no bird's eye view in the narrow alleyways. Not a word is said about the fact that UN armored vehicles were also involved in the #rescue. Instead, it is presented as if the Americans had managed everything on their own at all times. I was very disappointed at the end by the statements of the soldiers on both sides, the lack of willingness to categorize and the theatrics at the end for the fallen US soldiers while the Somalis remain more of an anonymous mass of victims. One Somali fighter, for example, says he saved the one captured American pilot from being shot and therefore believes Somali fighters are the more empathetic ones. Several American soldiers claim that they fired into the crowds without mercy during the battle because they did not care about civilian casualties. Moreover, they would have preferred to stay in Somalia to continue fighting because it felt as if the losses were now pointless. It is unclear to me why there were so many civilian casualties on the Somali side. The women who wanted to save their schoolchildren do not justify the high number. As a civilian, you don't run onto the battlefield, at least I wouldn't think so.

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