Manchester: The Night of the Bomb | movie | 2018 | Official Clip
A vivid, formidable and powerful retelling of the 2017 terrorist attack, through the eyes of teenage girls who survived | dG1fMno5d0ZVaHZuVDA
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00:00This was the first concert that I was going to on my own.
00:05I'm really excited.
00:06I was trying to delete loads of pictures on my phone,
00:08so I had enough space for all the videos that I was going to take.
00:13Spotlights went on in time with the music
00:15and the crowd just went crazy.
00:21It's just inspiring.
00:23Empowering.
00:24Everything was just really exciting with it. It was new.
00:30CHEERING
00:36There was, like, music playing while we got up
00:38and I was just making my way out onto the stairs
00:41and then we heard, like, this...
00:43It was like a...
00:45Like a boom sound.
00:47BOOM
00:48Oh, my God!
00:50Going on?
00:52You could feel the sound wave hit you.
00:56And then just suddenly flashed, like, a bright flash.
01:04It, like, hit my face, like, little tiny, like,
01:07little bolts and nuts and stuff.
01:10I remember going up into the air and then hitting the floor.
01:14And that's when I saw, like, my finger was hanging off,
01:16like, all my three fingers.
01:18Everything that you thought would never happen to you,
01:21that you see everywhere on the news, is actually happening.
01:25I felt that this is it.
01:27I'm young, I've just started my life
01:30and now it's going to be taken away from me.
01:4022 people have died and 59 are injured after a suicide bombing
01:44at the end of Ariana Grande's gig at Manchester Arena.
01:48People see it as a news story and people see it as something
01:52that happens and then it goes away.
01:55But you never go a day without thinking about it, do you?
01:58You never go an hour without thinking about it.
02:01How many times I've actually had to wake my mum up on a night
02:04because I've had a nightmare.
02:06And that's almost something what a kid would do, you know,
02:09go into the mum's room and say,
02:11I've had a nightmare, but it's not like a nightmare of being chased,
02:14it's actually what happened that night.
02:16I relive it and I relive it if I was going to other concerts.
02:20I've had dreams about the same thing happening
02:25but in a shopping centre.
02:26So I was just, like, re-sorting my room out for the fifth time
02:30that day until, like, four o'clock in the morning
02:33because I just didn't want to sleep because I was too scared
02:36to go to sleep in case I had another nightmare.
02:39Silence is too frightening for me and that's on a night,
02:43like, I try to get to my tiredest point of where a mum is dropping
02:47to sleep before I go to bed because I don't want to lay in bed
02:51and to have these thoughts, I just want to drop off to sleep
02:53and then hopefully wake up and it'd be morning.
02:56I used to be so independent and now I just feel like I rely on everyone.
03:02Like, I don't like being on my own, I don't like being, um...
03:07I don't like just being left to myself.
03:09Because I wasn't hurt or I feel like someone's, like,
03:13going to, like, constantly there, like, waiting to, like...
03:17Like, I'm going to get hurt because I didn't at that night.
03:20I know, like, now not to take anything for granted any more
03:23because things can just change in a matter of minutes.
03:26And it did that night, that's what happened.
03:28Things just change so quickly.
03:30When I'm older, I want to be able to just think about it
03:33but then be like, yeah, that happened, but say what?
03:39And be like...
03:40And then not, like, not in a disrespectful way,
03:43just to be like, it not bother me.