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It's just a ton of people who really don't do anything to help out on the ground who just visit the place or are in power without really knowing much about what is going on. They also show religious gurus come to visit the cave. While in reality the politicians actually did a lot more talking. This is shown in the first 30 minutes, but then largely drops to the background. An enormous amount of Thai politicians budding in and doing nearly all PR on this, to improve their image. Now, there is A LOT of politics around this. We get to nearly meet the kids here as we slowly explore how they were found. They actually did all this stuff themselves. In the other docs it really feels like the British divers just kinda helped out. We learn a lot about smaller mistakes and even who made the plan. This stuff is not mentioned in the overview docs. They even tell us about how a diver got lost and swam in the wrong direction with a kid.
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We see the full plan from start till finish. This is the best documentary about the rescue itself for sure as we get interviews with all the divers and even opinions from a girlfriend and wive at times. But the actual rescue was 95% done by these divers and their plan and they did it voluntarily. I did enjoy the other docs because they presented the culture in greater details. Which frankly feels just perfect for this because this is the main storyline. It's largely focused on the White divers. Those farmers are amazing! They are not even mentioned here. Then there are the farmers who allowed their crops to be ruined by the water pumped out of the cave. But it was actually a big operation by itself. In the other docs they mention and show how Thai units unsuccessfully climbed down small caves on top of the mountain to find a route down to the area where the kids were. So just a few more days and everyone still down there would be dead. Days after they left the cave was flooded. And then the big political hurdles they all had to punch through to even be allowed to try out this rescue attempt. They also bring up the Thai divers and their inexperience. Especially divers from UK and then one doctor/diver from Australia who gives the kids anesthesia and makes this all possible. So all these documentaries, and movies, are not always about the same thing. Of course completely insane idea because it's very narrow cave passages, but there were many such alternative plans. Elon Musk even promised he would build a mini submarine to rescue the kids and called one of the rescuers pedo guy for doubting him on Twitter. There were hundreds of people directly on the scene, thousands involved, various different plans being checked out. It's a huuuuge operation so every time you watch a new video you see something totally new about the operation. I have watched quite a few documentaries, news segments, and Youtube videos about this cave rescue.