Tuesday, June 2, 2015


In the film of Dan Eldon that his sister made for him to remember how good of journalist he was. When he went to Somalia and he went through a lot of tragic situations trying to interview and see how some of the people lived and some of the things that their everyday life was like some of the people that lived there got killed for no reason they were getting treated bad and also the way that they carried themselves. Some of the people that were also there fighting with each other and there was actually small children also in the fights with guns and killing people. Some of the things that were horrifying to see was the fact that’s their life they have to be there to see all these people go through these things. Dan Eldon was a journalist that decided to go to  Somalia to  take pictures of how they lived and to  actually let people know that there are suffering that  there way of life wasn’t good . They were very poor people trying to do anything that they can to actually live and do what they got to do.

Some of the people that actually went to through the hardest things there life was almost at risk there was heroes also the fact that they went to see these people almost die because of some the things that  they  did and how they  went through fights, wars actually getting close to  these people taking pictures of them. Some of these journalist got so close to  the people and didn’t make it back  because of the risk  they  put themselves in because of the parts they  and the things they  decided to  take pictures of especially pictures that had to  do with  shooting some of these people were angry because they  didn’t want to  be in those pictures and it didn’t end so good because they were actually killing the journalist they  didn’t want to  have their pictures out there they hated it. 

My opinion on the film that Amy Eldon put together for her brother Dan was a very powerful movie. To the point that you can  see what  he actually was going through and see what was there experience like to  be in that kind of situation .  The way some of these journalist were going through just to get a story was shocking one of the journalist that was with Dan was Mohamed D.  he was in that  current situation when Dan passed away he know that doing that wasn’t good the fact that  they  were so close to them some of them  faced scary moments taking one picture then the person  they  took  the picture of minutes later passes away . Amy put all these things in  one film to show us how there life is to  get one story  and how close they were and also  the fact  that there life wasn’t easy because eat any minute the person that  could’ve died wasn’t her but other people that  they  were trying to  take these pictures.

The way  she chooses to find out what  really happened to her brother to  actually go back  to  where he died to  see what he went through to  ask around to see if they  knew anything interviewing people such  as Peter M, Corrine D, Jonathan, Anthony , Martin B . Some of these people that went through a lot of the things. One of these journalist that she interviewed was Martin B he was killed by the Somalian Mob she was just with him couples days that he was trying to take pictures and she then found out that he got killed by them he was close to her also he was telling her all the things that was going on around but the point was that he went through this and ended getting killed.

 

The power and the responsibilities of what they were sent to do and all the things they were going through to get the top story on how these people were living in these conditions and how they were doing all these close up pictures some of these people that went and got these pictures some of them got killed because of the risk they out there life in and how they wanted to go up closer in some dangerous parts they were going to. A lot of these people didn’t know what they were putting themselves in they were there to take the pictures and make a story about these people that lived there and actually getting to meet some and some of them were getting mad because the people that were there didn’t like the fact that they went there to see and take pictures of them and put it in their story. Some of the people that were going through this passed away and some survived the horrifying experiences that happened and that’s exactly what Amy Eldon wanted to show us that what Dan liked taking pictures of those kind of things that he enjoyed.

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