Unfinished 9-11

From the 9/11 films that we watched in class, two of them caught my eye. The first one was about a deaf French woman who had been living in New York City a little more than a year with a tour guide. They had been having problems and her boyfriend said that they would talk things over when he got home. She agreed, but only if he actually would come home, because a voice had told her that he wouldn’t. He left angrily and the woman sat at her computer around the corner from the TV and starting writing a good bye letter to her boyfriend. It was intense, because there was no sound, as if you were really with her unable to hear. After she went to get the door, and found her boyfriend covered in dust, I started to wonder what it would have been like for her to have witnessed the attack first hand. She wouldn’t have been able to hear it, or hear the people screaming, but I bet she could have felt the people running around her, seeing people in shock, and then feel the building as it fell to the ground. Even when she was in her appartment she could feel the building shake.