
Congressman Jamie Raskin states at the beginning of the documentary about the January 6th Insurrection ‘The Sixth’ that “Sometimes the truth is like a second chance”. This second chance is like an equalizer for freedom, human rights, and democracy in the US.
But the context accompanying Raskin’s interview is at times pretty sobering. On the other hand, Raskin’s color is pensive and restrained as if he is in a Congress hearing room which is an empty Samsonite sound booth. The camera was partially directed to him with a side light inspiring him to unfurl the thought processes of that day when he sat in his office within the capitol building worrying more about his daughter Tabitha who he knew had already gone to the building rather than his own security.
It has been almost four years since that day, but Raskin’s demeanor has not changed as the shadows of anxiety still linger on his face while he explains the events when the representatives of the American nation, be it the Republicans, the Democrats, or the Independents, and their staff along with their family huddled in solitary fear from a disorganized mob of chapel clad men and women.
With the anger subsiding to a considerable extent during the evening, the protestors displayed an ample amount of rage and chaos while storming into the House of Representatives chamber. However, during the entire protest, no individual knew the outcome and how it would result. There’s always a viral clip related to an event that most people remember vividly, and in this case, it is the contentious footage that provides the context for the idea of the protest that transpired on January 6.
The enticing moment when the Terminator beats the Iron Grandma, a D.C. Metro officer wearing a sound system mic, and several Trump supporters protesting the theft at the Capitol also make an appearance in the film. Furthermore, the imagery of the furious mob crawling up the Capitol dome’s marble walls like spiders, proves just how damaging the attack on the Capitol was.
And this pile of screaming amalgamation of Trump’s supporters and protestors who came to the Capitol with the sole motivation of plundering rather than sightseeing is, quite surprisingly, the least shocking. Rather than echoing out flimsy placards with fairytale slogans like the idea of American democracy would always prevail or would remain unscathed.
What distinguishes The Sixth, a vibrant but very humane narrative, is that quality. A lot of Reconstruction of the January 6th fiasco that the documentary films feature includes footage from that area. But Fine and Nix have previously placed us in the mess but as this film will allow us to see the exact area then they go above and beyond to detail where we are in the park and the regions around the Capitol, they use great precision in placing us inside the room where the unwound democracy camera is located and even more precision into the staff that is inside the camera and is huddled as they observe the wave of people fueled with energy coming towards the camera. But at least, there is such a strange sort of an ache in the silence.
The painful silence is interrupted by footage of smiling protestors walking elegantly towards the Ellipse that is situated behind the White House. With these pictures, one could visualize how numerous the protesters were -the projected estimate was in the tens of thousands, however, the actual figure crossed 120,000 Even now, the voices of the speakers could be heard from the podium which was located at the Ellipse; the riot and combat dressed protestors were however unperturbed by this and undertook the initiative to make their way towards the Capitol. Anger can be seen in the footage of their informal parade.
Raskin is not the only one who gets to narrate events and the film features in detail several narrators including; the award-winning photographer, Mel D. Cole who is seen getting audience after audience to Powell’s books, Christina Laury who was hit with bear spray while trying to talk to the crowd outside the Capitol, officer Daniel Hodges who was shown being crushed in the doorway, and Erica Loewe who is the communications director for James Clyburn, who was getting more and more appalled as she watched the protestors physically trampling the police barriers.
This group has been through a lot and seems understandably furious, however, The Sixth doesn’t do a very good job of explaining why the people behind the gate are furious. There are still flashes of real people in the crowd and the impressive work of video graphics in documenting these events of Cole who, for example, photographed Bow St protesters saving a wounded person and reminding us all of the brief moments when one protester was yelling in tears asking his people to stop all of the hatred and violence.
What, however, is not very difficult to grasp, is that the writer indeed appears to have relished the chance to interview the lady. First, the theory has been developed then the time it was filmed, the adult woman wearing a blue hat and Others sitting in central Chicago.
“This woman grins and says, No, I am willing to give up myself for my motherland, and for my children, and for my grandchildren.’ You should be aware that she is aware that she’s going to die.” Intriguingly, Ashli Babbit, who was shot dead while attempting to cross the broken window of the Speaker’s lobby, looks very much like this woman. She is either a deluded tool who has been brainwashed or a courageous patriotic lady, but one thing is for sure, she is not backing off.
Furthermore, the last material we caught sight of covers the faces of the warriors as well. The irrational rage that consumed them is all that can be seen as their bodies flinch with the urge to shove the swords forward only for them to fall into formation and begin a slow-dark solemn march only some backward stances and jerks spanning over forty-five three-second intervals can interrupt. Yes, it would have been reasonable to sit for a minute or two and explain that the cameras aimed and zoomed into a number of insurgents that were brought into the Capitol through side doors after the primary entrances and scorching violence that surrounded them hence, how could that involve them or protesting that explains wanting to fall out of the doors suffocated the policemen who were there in confusion did they not feel helpless over it? Were they expected to? Their attire being basic without protective vests and shields was an indicator of normality, or at least they were led to believe. The simple story being told on other battlefields, that of good fighting bad, which was also happening elsewhere on that day, is just too easy. Oh yes, most definitely the Sixth should have sought to and been able to widen their understanding of this situation.
It is not very surprising that the narrators and filmmakers would absolve the January 6th insurrectionists for the brutal attack that injured over a hundred officers. After all, they are the self-declared most strongest and powerful people in America than mere street drug dealers. Even the villains of Marvel movies have their man’s journey explained. Above all as an American, I want to understand what exactly happened that thousands of fellow Americans were so aggrieved as to make such a hurried and misplaced charge to the government. Which If they were sensible enough to comprehend was pointless to even try for, was only for a momentary peak.
If one or two those of highly abused people would have gazed at the camera and carefully placed it on their side, pleading to them just once I regret not wearing my hat. Inhale, exhale, and then EADEGIA.
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