Discussion WK 2

ELEVEN
This is a short film about a young man named Josh Willliams. Josh had dreamt of becoming a news reporter. His first report was on problems caused by a man who lost his father on September 11th. This man’s name was Simya Jones. Simya created a group called Group 11 after losing his father. Simya and his group’s goal was to rid the world of terrorists, and their first target was Muslims. A young man named Malik Sharie who was a biology student was the first they had attacked. Josh was supposed to do a follow up with Muslims about the attempted murder on Malik. Simya didn’t mean for the other man to survive and made sure it didn’t happen again. The movie ended with Josh getting his dream, he died at the hands of Simya and their group. Josh Williams left the movie as an A list reporter, and on the front page. He also noted that he was not pissed.
This short film was very good. I felt that it was so realistic and touched on some serious issues. After September 11, and finding out who the culprits were there was a lot of commotion about Muslims. And till this day there still are some remnants of hostility towards Muslims. It is unfortunate that judgment was passed on an entire culture based on the actions of such a small fraction of the whole. This incident affected not only the United States but the world. A similar terrorist attack happened in London. Emotions of everyone, those that were and were not effected, ran high. How can a person properly react to such a horrendous crime? Though there was a lot of help offered to those that were affected, was it enough? Some people did retaliate, what were they thinking? How do you help someone with such a loss? How do you protect an entire culture from possible harm? Tons of questions are running through my mind. It was said at one point that September 11 could have been avoided. What it was, would it have stopped them from trying again? Probably not. Now, 7 yrs later things are still trying to settle down, but I don’t think people will ever be totally healed from the terrorist’s attacks of 2001 and 2005.