Just like we discussed in class, the Zapruder film, Princess Diana video and 9/11 video have a few things in common. For one, everyone is obsessed with watching these videos. It is not because they are necessarily have a fetish with death, but because most people seem to believe that watching the videos can reverse the events. In my opinion, I watch videos like this to help me cope with reality. When there is a major catastrophe, it takes a while for reality to sink in with people. A way for it to hit them is to watch it happen over and over again. My best friend's mom died over the summer in a horrific accident. It was so sudden that it was just unbelievable to everyone close to her. I was really close to her and so was my mom. I think about her and memories with her everyday. I look at pictures of her constantly and I drive pass her cross almost every week, but still reality has not sunk in with me. Whenever I am at my best friend's house I still think her mom is just going to walk through the door.
These three important films show something historically significant, but still leave a lot of information out. After watching them they leave quite a bit of mystery behind. All three hold many conspiracy theories that still to this day have never been figured out. In the case of the JFK assasination film and the 9/11 videos, the unprofessional and shaky videoing made it more real to those watching it because it did not seem like a movie, it made the audience feel like they were really there. The video of the car crash of Princess Diana was not as traumatizing to me as the other because it was not an actually a LIVE video. It was just a video of the pictures from the aftermath of her car accident which was not as realistic to me as the others.
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