The Major character in this documentary was Umm Salam. Her family is sunni muslim. One day shiite militiamen came to their house and murdered 7 people claiming her family were ISIS sympathizers, in the murders she lost her 3 sons, her brother in law and his 3 sons. She has 1 son left and her husband who is disabled. Umm represents many women and families who have gone through this. Who's family have been brutally murdered and they were forced to give up their life.
I think almost everything in this grabbed my attention. This is not familiar to me, such violence, and its astonishing to me how brutal people are, and the horrible things these people face. When she said they tied all the men up in ne room, put the women and children in another room and then took all the money, and later found out the men had been executed, thats horrible, no one should have to go through that.
The story unfolds fast, talking about how one day the militiamen came and killed the men and took the money after claiming the family were ISIS sympathizers. Then it went into the aftermath and how they were forced to move from their home and how they don't know when they'll be able to go back home. The last quote at the end "some allege that, in certain areas of Iraq, anti-isis forces may have killed as many sunni's as ISIS has." The story started quickly with the climax and ended slower, but the last quote really makes you think.
The story is told by Umm Salam and her relative. They both survived the massacre, lost their family members and were forced to move out of their homes and become refugees.
This film is told through direct expository. There weren't very many shot types, they were mostly mid shots of Umm and her relative. They had a few extreme wide shots of the land at the beginning and the family. In one there was a two shot of Umm and her husband, and there was a point of view of a mom and child walking, but over all the film was very simple and not a lot of different shot types and camera movements. They had a text track because Umm and the relative didn't speak english so the text track was a translation.
The story didn't need to do much to keep me interested. I was already intrigued because what was going on was something that I could never imagine, I was just so intrigued about how cruel people can be. At the end a quote popped up that just blew my mind (quote is in the 3rd paragraph at the end). If the film was longer that definitely would have intrigued me to watch more.
We care because we need to understand what is going on in the world. We hear these stories in the news, but its so hard to grasp because something so horrible would never happen in the US. Yes we do have mass shootings, but its nothing like whats going on in Iraq and the other countries down there. Hearing and seeing people who have gone through this really helps show its real, because you see their emotion their pain and you realize its more than just a story, its real life, and they are real people.
Lombroso, Daniel, and Greyson Korhonen. "Testimony of a Massacre." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 15 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
I think almost everything in this grabbed my attention. This is not familiar to me, such violence, and its astonishing to me how brutal people are, and the horrible things these people face. When she said they tied all the men up in ne room, put the women and children in another room and then took all the money, and later found out the men had been executed, thats horrible, no one should have to go through that.
The story unfolds fast, talking about how one day the militiamen came and killed the men and took the money after claiming the family were ISIS sympathizers. Then it went into the aftermath and how they were forced to move from their home and how they don't know when they'll be able to go back home. The last quote at the end "some allege that, in certain areas of Iraq, anti-isis forces may have killed as many sunni's as ISIS has." The story started quickly with the climax and ended slower, but the last quote really makes you think.
The story is told by Umm Salam and her relative. They both survived the massacre, lost their family members and were forced to move out of their homes and become refugees.
This film is told through direct expository. There weren't very many shot types, they were mostly mid shots of Umm and her relative. They had a few extreme wide shots of the land at the beginning and the family. In one there was a two shot of Umm and her husband, and there was a point of view of a mom and child walking, but over all the film was very simple and not a lot of different shot types and camera movements. They had a text track because Umm and the relative didn't speak english so the text track was a translation.
The story didn't need to do much to keep me interested. I was already intrigued because what was going on was something that I could never imagine, I was just so intrigued about how cruel people can be. At the end a quote popped up that just blew my mind (quote is in the 3rd paragraph at the end). If the film was longer that definitely would have intrigued me to watch more.
We care because we need to understand what is going on in the world. We hear these stories in the news, but its so hard to grasp because something so horrible would never happen in the US. Yes we do have mass shootings, but its nothing like whats going on in Iraq and the other countries down there. Hearing and seeing people who have gone through this really helps show its real, because you see their emotion their pain and you realize its more than just a story, its real life, and they are real people.
Lombroso, Daniel, and Greyson Korhonen. "Testimony of a Massacre." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 15 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.