No one is a lone hero

Benjamin 2022-01-24 08:05:11

This movie is both a cartoon and a documentary. The film has two main lines ingeniously constructed, one is an interview with an aging party, and the other is to restore the tragic University of Texas shooting 50 years ago through animation.
In the film, we can see the panic and helplessness of people when the danger comes suddenly, and it is this disaster that connects many lives that would never have intersected.
There are no lone heroes in real life. In the film, the pregnant Claire heard the gunshots, was frightened, and fell into a pool of blood. The boyfriend who fell next to her had been shot and lost his breath. Claire found a lot of people standing tens of meters away, but no one stepped forward to rescue her. These people may be concerned about their lives, family..., they have to sigh silently.
But there are always a few people willing to let go of their worries to save those dying lives. There was a woman named Rita who happened to walk by Claire, intending to help, but before reaching out, bullets flew. In this situation, she could only lie on the ground like Claire. That is, all Rita can do is keep talking to Claire so that she must not lose consciousness. Claire said: "Only by constantly reminiscing about the process of getting acquainted with my boyfriend do I feel sober.
There is a line in the film that impresses me, so let's end it. When a reporter asked the police who went to snipe the criminals, they would think about it. When he feels fear, he said: There is no time to think about fear. Yes, we are not supermen, we will be shaken in fear, but kindness, bravery, and warmth are the powers that can defeat fear.

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Extended Reading
  • Bartholome 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    An ingenious documentary that uses animation to restore the crime scene ingeniously. Gunshots are endless, and the interspersed interviews make the animation clips look cruel. The whole film does not introduce criminals who shoot indiscriminately, which can be understood as discouraging crime. The last character interview shows the shining light of human nature in times of crisis.

  • General 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Just reviewing the entire incident from the perspective of the victim or non-murderer, restoring the pain caused by the incident, is also warning and educating future generations.

Tower quotes

  • John Fox: I remember looking at the Tower, of course, a lot. And from the Main Mall you can see there's a biblical line from the Bible. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." I've thought about it. One of the truths I learned... Is that there are monsters that walk among us. There are people out there that think unthinkable thoughts and then do unthinkable things.

  • Walter Cronkite: The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in the horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime.