sonechka’s Reviews > Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster > Status Update

and then i notice that the people are behaving the same way. they’re all carrying themselves just like in the scene from everyone’s favorite movie, ‘the cranes are flying’ - a lone tear, short words of farewell. it turned out we were all looking for a form of behavior that was familiar to us. we wanted to live up to the moment, and this is what we remembered.