Reign Over Me - Extra Credit Blog

I felt that this movie was really moving and that the audience could relate to Charlie's sadness. I think that most of the families of the victims of 9/11 found some sort of comfort from this movie. However, I feel that the movie would have been just as moving even if another tragedy had been mentioned as the motive for Charlie's depression. The movie had only mentioned that his family died in a plane crash on 9/11 and did not further expand on that matter. They focused mainly on the fact that his family was dead rather than the cause of it. So, this reference may have been a little unnecessary. On the other hand, the person who I went to watch the movie with, had a completely different opinion. He felt that this tragedy may have played a key role in Charlie's depression because it's not something that happens every day. He feels that everyone knows what happened on that tragic day and how it must have affected the victim's families, but this film focuses on the effect it had on one man. The ending of the movie was very good because it gave the viewer the chance to come up with their own conclusion to Charlie's life. Had the writer chosen to conclude the film with a "Happily Ever After" ending, it would have made the film a little "cheesy" and unrealistic. It was a very well written and acted film.