Friday, November 20, 2009

Fires in the Mirrors

My first reaction to the movie, Fires in the Mirrors, is who is telling the truth and who is lying. It was exhausting watching the Jewish citizens and the African Americans trying to prove that they were the victims and it was the other side that was the enemy. I also noticed they were trying to justify their actions during the time. For example, Anonymous Young Man #1 justified his action of beating up the Jewish man that ran over the 7-year-old black boy because he was supposedly drunk, according to him. From what we have seen, I have not been able to decide who is telling the truth or who is lying. I am thinking that neither group is telling the entire truth because it could reflect badly on their people. I believe the reason these two groups do not get along is because they know nothing about each other and they will not try to get to know each other. Looking at the facts so far, I side with the Jews. The Jews never lowered to physical abuse against the African Americans, even when the African Americans killed an innocent Jewish man who had nothing to do with the accident.

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