Every breath you take in The First Wave

One of the 15 documentary features vying for an Oscar in the coming 94th Academy Awards is Matthew Heineman’s, an inside look at the COVID-19 health scare as the Emmy Award-winning director and his team attached themselves to the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York City to close in on its frontliners and patients.

The once “full of life” humans are now weak, lost, immobile, staring blankly at the camera. “I’m sorry to tell you this but we have tried multiple rounds of CPR and we were unable to bring him back,” confesses Dr. Douge to her patient’s family over the mobile phone. In the chilling background, we hear the wailing cries of the family members. Some scenes are “unwatchable” due to the graphic intensity of patients fighting for their life.

Brussels who hails from Davao City belongs to a family of nurses. She migrated to the US in 2000. Sadly, the family members all got infected. Naph cannot be with his wife, who is intubated, and his newborn son. “Worst experience of my life,” he says.Dr. Douge gives us the reality on what goes on in the ICU. “When you are struggling to take a breath, every second feels like an eternity,” says the Northwell Health frontliner. “Every minute feels like forever.

filmmaker and Dartmouth College graduate. “People we thought would survive would die. And people you thought would die would survive. You can never make a bet or tell what would happen. That was really, really devastatingly sad.”The Pare Lorentz Award winner was difficult to watch because of the intensity of the visuals and sounds, and the reality of mortality. And sometimes, death becomes the final destination for most COVID-19 patients.

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