Tuesday, December 16, 2014

9/11

In reading the movies we recently have watched "Reign over Me" and “Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close." In the movie "Reign over Me" Charlie is riding his motorized scooter down a street of New York City. His college roommate Alan was trying for a couple days to get his attention on his scooter. After he gets Charlie's attention they get a cup of coffee, and they hang out a few times. One day Alan upsets Charlie to where Charlie flips his lid and went water boy. Alan learns that Charlie's wife, three children, and dog were killed in 9/11. Alan tries to get Charlie the help he needs, after awhile Charlie agrees to see a psychiatrist. Charlie goes to these sessions about three times and the last time he went he went out of the room into the lobby and started talking about his family and how they died on the plane from Boston during 9/11. This film copes with nine- eleven by the life you live after you lost your loved ones and your best friend. It shows how crappy life is when something so extreme happens.
     The next movie we watched was "Extremely Loud, Incredibly close." This is about a family that is living well in New York City. The parents have a little boy named Oscar. Oscar goes with his dad everywhere, to his store, on little exploring expedition trips. The day of the worst day Oscar goes to school, and the wife is at work by the twin towers. The father had a meeting in the twin towers on a floor above 100. When the plane hit the building it was close to where he was and when Oscar got home he heard his dad calling but he couldn’t answer the phone. His dad was waiting as long as he could to have Oscar be brave enough to answer the phone but it was too late. Oscar feels so horrible about his dad that he yells at his mom about stuff and then he goes in his dad’s closet and drops a vase. There was a key in this vase and Oscar decides to find where the key fits and he thinks it will bring him closer to his dad. Oscar meets his grandfather and he finds out who the key belongs to. Oscar is really bummed out that it didn’t bring him closer to his dad. This movie copes with 9/11 by seeing what it’s like to have a loved one die in the building. Both of these movies have a comparison, they tell both sides of the event. "Reign over Me" tells a story about the extreme terror from the plane hitting the tower. "Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close" tells the story from being in the building and how horrifying it was when the plane hit the building. The movie "Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close" is my favorite movie of the two because I can almost connect with what the little boy was feeling.

No comments:

Post a Comment