I thought these two short films were very interesting and thought provoking. In class we defined the term midrash as interpreting things through a biblical context or lens. I think that both of these short films do a great job of taking two of the ten commandments and putting them in real life scenarios that many people can relate to and understand. These films are a form of midrash because in order to truly understand the movie, viewers have to not only look and question their own thinking but compare their thinking to the commands the producer is basing these movies on.
I thought that the films relate feeling to meaning by causing viewers to become invested and attached to the main characters. In the first movie, viewers become fascinated with the intellect of the young boy and the life that he seems to bring to everyone around him. In the second movie, viewers become invested in the young man who is a murderer due to the story he shares about his younger sister who was killed accidentally. As these feelings progress, I found myself putting meaning behind these feelings. I felt myself questioning the death penalty and truly seeing it as murder and the ending of a life and not just as "an eye for an eye." The feelings brought forth caused me, as a viewer, to try and put understanding to the feelings that I was having. I feel that these films do bridge the ultimate meaning to eternity. It causes viewers to have an eternal mindset for a period of time and truly value every life and moment that is in front of them.
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