Monday, January 08, 2007

Two To Do

--See 'Children of Men'
--Google 'Loose Change'

Watch them
Discuss them
Pass them on

posted by Aaron Lazar @ 8:51 PM   3 comments links to this post  

3 Comments:

At Tuesday, 09 January, 2007, Tiffany said...

It's so intersting you mentioned "Loose Change" because my home was recently host to a little Jewish girl from Lebanon who was assumed to be an orphan because her parents worked in a building across from their home and she had actually seen the building in front of her be bombed...and we were keeping her with us for a while (it's a long story, basically through a church my father belongs to -and my cousin who was attending college there helped in securing homes for endangered people in the area- they were in negotiations with churches in Lebanon, and she is about 6 years old and speaks Lebanese and French) anyway...my friend and I were relating the book Fahrenheit 451 to the U.S government for an English paper and we were watching a video like this one because we were trying to prove that no one can just emliminate this possiblity regardless of patriotic feelings towards their country, and we didn't know but she had seen the video. She simply just crept through the door when we weren't paying attention and aftwerwards she said in French "An airplane did that? It looked like what happened to the building at home. But an airplane didn't do that."
Now I'm not completely certain of the exact bombs or other such weapons that were used on the building she was discussing, so it's possible that it could be a completely different sort of bombing situation, but that a 6 year old child could understand that when more than half a country couldn't was so mind-blowing to me.

Thanks for posting this. When I mention these kinds of facts, like in my report for English class, I get sent down to the school psychiatrist to make sure I'm not going to become a partisan in some sort of anti-patriotic escapade. People at least need to consider the posibility. I may only be a teenager but she was only 6 years old and it made sense to her.
(Actually Aaron, I wrote a letter that I still haven't been able to mail to you, but when she was with us in November we brought her to see Les Mis and my entire letter was linking Les Mis with what was going on with her and how it was amazing to me that, again, a 6-year-old was so adept and could recognize what was going on in that kind of situation and how Les Mis really just relates to everything. Now that you mention "Loose Change" I'll have to change my letter a bit to include that but you'll get it soon. It includes more detail about how my family was able to keep her in our house (so that people reading this don't think that we illegally smuggled and kept some Lebanese girl in our house) and her happy ending but what I'm trying to get at is that people need to be more open minded about it all.

I actually e-mailed this to my American Gov't teacher and we'll be watching it tomarrow in class.

Thanks again for bringing light to the topic. It may have been 6 years ago, and I may only have been in the 5th grade when it happened, so yes, maybe my opinions can't really count for much regarding this topic, but it's not something that just goes away. And as I've grown and seen really what had happened that day in the 5th grade when they closed the shutters and told us that there was a bee nest outside and we had to be very quiet and do our silent work it's easier to make my own decisions about it.

Sorry for the long comment that sort of went off-topic. The gist of it is that I salute you for being one of the few (compared to those who don't) to admit that there is this chance. Or certainty, depending on who's watching the video.

 
At Wednesday, 07 February, 2007, Karmela Johnson said...

Aaron -- I just saw the show this Saturday (matinee, 2/3) and even though this is the 4th time I've seen it, it's my first on Broadway and my first in the front row. Let me just give you my kudos for an electrifying performance. Keep up the excellent work. I may come see the show again for a 5th time when Lea Salonga takes the stage.

 
At Sunday, 11 February, 2007, Anonymous said...

hi aaron.
I wanted to tell you that I went to see Les Mis on Broadway on February 7 '07. I just wanted to thank you and the entire cast for making it the best theater experience of my life. You were captivating and the story was enchanting. I hope to see it again soon. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this theater go-er so very happy.
Best of luck in all you do, I would not hesitate to come and see you in a show again.

 

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