Reflection 2

After finishing the movie, I am still filled with confusion. But I also feel very angry after watching this movie. The feeling of confusion comes from the multiple different sides of the story that is being told. The Jews are saying that one thing happened, but the African Americans of the community are certain that another thing happened, and a good portion of them happened to be eyewitnesses. I have a lot of anger after watching this movie because it makes me so mad to see that after something unbiased as a car accident there can be so much hatred that evolves. After the accident, there was a huge fued, and now when all of the people are telling there stories it is always one side against the other. There was very seldom a story that talked nice about both sides, or a Jew that talked nice about an African American and vice versa. The Jewish people would talk about how respectful the Jews were to the family of the African American boy but then they would turn right around and talk about how disrespectful the African Americans were. There were simple things that were done that the other side completely blew into proportions, and it was almost annoying after a certain point to hear them complain about each other over something that happened on accident. I think Anna Smith did this piece to show everyone how confusing and angry this incident really made everyone. It let the viewers know that while you could know what happened, the little boy was hit by a car, there are always 10 different sides to a story and all of them take different versions to get to the same ending.