I think the film Newtown was a pretty good film. I really appreciated the fact that the author decided to focus on the victims as opposed to the shooter himself. Someone actually made a point of that in the question-and-answer session. I believe that the fact that the author made the film about the victims sort of gave the whole thing a new scope. In order to really focus on the subject at hand, she chose to focus on the children and the families and the community of Newtown. In addition, I appreciated the fact that we were able to really see the aftermath of the whole incident. Sometimes when things like this happen, after the person is killed or discovered the whole situation kind of goes under the rug. They sort of just forget like the people around the world would tend to forget about what happened on that incident: how many people were taken away, how many innocent lives were lost? So with this film it kind of made people remember and really recognize them for what they’ve done in this world and that we did lose some really amazing lives. It also showed how the community of Newtown came together to unite and support one another. Even though they may have not known each other they still decided that the only way to get through this was together as a community. On another note, I was amazed, to say the least, about some of the shots that were taken. I think the movie opened with the video from the police car that was on the actually on the scene. They were driving somewhere and then they got the call so then they reported to the school, Sandy Hook; we could actually see that all in the police cam. There was another shot where the director of the movie decided to get an aerial shot of the whole town and I just found that pretty neat just because it’s not a typical shot you would see. It was of the area of Sandy Hook in Newtown and you can see the whole community, including the housing developments. Another shot if I recall correctly was the shot of the shooters house and I guess it gave us an idea of what was essentially going on in their mind. We could get an idea of how they were thinking and how they were acting. You could see that they had a lot of bullets laying around there’s a gun in the closet so it was no surprise honestly. Overall, I really enjoyed this evening.