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Description Summary for the video: Narrates the 1984 McDonald's Massacre, where a man walked into a San Diego fast food restaurant and shot forty men, women, and children. It offers valuable educational content through previously unseen footage and survivor interviews that effectively document this tragedy's historical significance.

My Review:

One of the saddest documentaries I've ever seen. This documentary is only worth the watch for the survivors, who unfortunately had to suffer even further and endure deceptive and unprofessional behavior and odd questions from the director Charlie Minn who has done other shooting documentaries. He is all about drama and being a sensationalist. I was stunned by the statements he made blaming police and his questions kept getting weirder. He was very cold and this was poor filmmaking, if u can even call it that. Unprofessional camerawork, and biased self serving haphazard approach. He actually asked a survivor: "So, if your loved one was here right now, what would you say to them" Is he for real? None of your business dude. I've never heard a director of a documentary ask this before. But hey, he got his dramatic moment right by making them cry?

Minn managed to get those who appear on camera to sign waivers, which is standard practice for television but what he didn't do was act in good faith. Pretty much everyone who is still in the film tried to back out but a contract is a contract. This was raw exploitation of people involved in a tragedy. He lied to the families of survivors and the families of the deceased as well and they basically ran him out of town after one out of two days of filming poorly staged interviews and asking all the wrong questions.

If you're seen it, what are your thoughts? What's crazy is I rarely get offended by documentaries but he made my blood boil and I left a negative review. Something I didn't even do for Goodnight, sugar babe, which was also very unprofessional and amateurish and weird as hell and didn't focus very much on the victim.

I still recommend watching. These people are amazing and deserve to be heard. Both the survivors and victims will always be heroes. I was very moved by their bravery and selflessness.