Brief Analyzation of the Documentary on Flight 93
Today my family recorded and watched a program called something like The Flight that Fought Back. It made me recollect the feelings I had on 9/11 four years ago today. I began to think of the techniques used to film and produce this program as well as the motives of the terrorists. It was a documentary film that showed the families' reactions and what they had to say of those who were on flight 93, the flight who fought back.
At the beginning of the footage that was on stage, that looked like the interior of an airplane, the shots were calm, leveled, and clear. It had remained in this way till the terrorists decided it was the time to turn back and head towards our nations capital city, when they took control of the plane and cockpit. This was when they began to shake the camera and violently tilt it as well as distorting colors. This technique would help the audience feel the anxiety, terror and chaos that was believed to be present on the airplane in fluctuating levels till the airplane was crashed. When they displayed pictures of the victims of the terrorists they would mask all four edges of the picture with a thick margin of black, generally showing more than one picture at a time. I beleive this was done to bring a focus on the facial features of each person, further personalizing the feelings of despair that those affected may have felt.
I try to think of the reasons why such horrible things happen in this world. I never manage to arrive at a different conclusion than greed, which is prominent in every heart that blindly seeks to do such acts of evil. Why did these men desire to kill so many people? I think the answer is simply found in what they believed in. Thinking that they would be rewarded to give their lives to destroying people in a country that they may have thought evil or wrong. Such acts aren't plausibly accompanied by thoughts of mercy or anything other than the clouded dark way that they shut themselves into.
In conclusion to my thoughts, the messages from the methods of filming the documentary reached for, and more or less achieved, instilling the confusing feelings that such victims may experience into it's viewers. The message I observed from the terrorist's motives and actions spoke of ultimate selfishness and narrowmindedness, that, for me to be truly happy, I must avoid to any degree at all costs.
At the beginning of the footage that was on stage, that looked like the interior of an airplane, the shots were calm, leveled, and clear. It had remained in this way till the terrorists decided it was the time to turn back and head towards our nations capital city, when they took control of the plane and cockpit. This was when they began to shake the camera and violently tilt it as well as distorting colors. This technique would help the audience feel the anxiety, terror and chaos that was believed to be present on the airplane in fluctuating levels till the airplane was crashed. When they displayed pictures of the victims of the terrorists they would mask all four edges of the picture with a thick margin of black, generally showing more than one picture at a time. I beleive this was done to bring a focus on the facial features of each person, further personalizing the feelings of despair that those affected may have felt.
I try to think of the reasons why such horrible things happen in this world. I never manage to arrive at a different conclusion than greed, which is prominent in every heart that blindly seeks to do such acts of evil. Why did these men desire to kill so many people? I think the answer is simply found in what they believed in. Thinking that they would be rewarded to give their lives to destroying people in a country that they may have thought evil or wrong. Such acts aren't plausibly accompanied by thoughts of mercy or anything other than the clouded dark way that they shut themselves into.
In conclusion to my thoughts, the messages from the methods of filming the documentary reached for, and more or less achieved, instilling the confusing feelings that such victims may experience into it's viewers. The message I observed from the terrorist's motives and actions spoke of ultimate selfishness and narrowmindedness, that, for me to be truly happy, I must avoid to any degree at all costs.
posted by Sir Radish at 10:20 PM
4 Comments:
Pretty intense stuff. I was just thinking about that. I don't think I will ever really understand how people could be like that. Still, it's not like we're the best people on the planet. It seems like people recall what happened, but don't really remember it, you know what I mean? I wish that people would change their lives for more than a couple months...I guess I understand a little better why the Nephites had such a hard time.
eww....who's that lady? I hope you don't know her...lol
Lucky!! I wanted to watch that show, but it was on the Discovery Channel, wasn't it?
Rich people with more than 7 channels...haha
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