9/11

         In this blog I will be talking about how two films Reign Over Me and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close show how people cope with and make sense of 9/11. Both films deal with a character losing a family member during 9/11. I liked both films for different reasons. They both touched my heart in different ways.
         I will start off with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which is a film that hits very close to home with it's message. I feel like I understand this film better because my uncle has Aspergers Syndrome. Some people don't understand Oskar because he's different. Everyone goes through loss differently. Oskar needed to understand his fathers death and the way he had to do that was to find out what the key he found opened up. Some people might think that is pointless but its his attempt on holding onto his father. If you lost your father wouldn't you want to do anything you could to hold onto the memory of them? That's all that Oskar is doing. In this film the director isn't trying to make sense of why the people ran a plane into a building but their trying to show you how the people felt that lost someone in 9/11 and what was going through their heads.
          I feel like Reign Over Me  was a little hard to follow at times. Charlie lost his wife and two kids and dog during 9/11. He didn't have anyone left. His parent and laws want to get him help and just want him to be apart of their lives because they lost them too. Charlie ends up getting close to Alan his old college roommate. Alan doesn't push Charlie like his parent and laws do. He does get Charlie to see someone and talk to her. This film was very well done but at times hard to follow. You did see that Charlie had a hard time losing his family but not in the same way that the other film did. The director wanted you to see what Charlie had to go through with losing everyone that was close to him.