Comments by "James Clendon" (@jamesclendon4811) on "The Untold True Story Behind Thirteen Lives (The Tham Luang Cave Rescue)" video.

Reading the letters the boys and their parents wrote to each other, simple as they are, is heartbreaking. If the boys hadn't survived it would be completely unbearable to read them.
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@PJK19 I disagree. Thai Cave Rescue on Netflix fictionalizes the story to an inexcusable extent. It focuses on fictional characters and ignores real people who were instrumental in the rescue, and it fictionalizes the personal stories of some of the boys and their families. However, Netflix redeems themselves with The Trapped Thirteen, a documentary which came out at the same time. That film includes actual interviews with some of the real boys and the coach, and lets us know them and their true story better than any other film.
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With respect, you may have missed it but nothing in this video was previously "untold."
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Crusty old Vern Unsworth, plain-spoken and not given to sugar coating things, said "It wasn't the kids' fault, it wasn't the coach's fault. They were just very unlucky." He, who knew the cave better than anyone, had been planning himself to go into the cave that day.
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Right, and it annoys me that in many videos about the rescue they say they had no food and then in practically the same breath they praise the coach for heroically giving his share of food to the boys. He very well might have, but he had nothing to share. Also, the bit about drinking the water dripping down the walls has been exaggerated. When Dr.Richard Harris (as he writes in his book) visited with some of the boys some months later he asked about that and they laughed--they said they mostly drank the water flowing past on the cave floor.
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@sololay3861 There are some--I read a review of one of the films on another site and in the comments someone complained that it included spoilers by revealing that the boys were in fact rescued and survived.
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@Mangolite The tidbit about the weakest boys being rescued first is untrue. The doctors determined that they were all in similar condition and left it up to them who would go first. Amusingly, they apparently decided the boys who lived furthest away would go first--they had no idea of the enormous scale of the rescue operation and expected they would simply get on their bikes and pedal home. Elon Musk's "contribution" was a shameless, self-serving distraction to the real rescue, and the less said about it the better.
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@Kelsee13 The boys and the coach early on sold the rights to their story to Netflix. Any other filmmakers were limited in what they could say about the boys. You might notice that this Ron Howard film doesn't even use the boys' actual names.
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