Eleven

The movie Eleven is about a young reporter trying to tell the story of the youngSikh man who was mistaken for a Muslim and murdered by a group callingthemselves ELEVEN. This group appointed themselves to rid the world of terroristthreats starting with the Muslims. The reporter, upon leaving the mosque aftergathering reactions to the man's murder, was himself mistaken for a Muslim andmurdered. The reporter candidly states that his dream came true, he made thefront page but in the process lost his life. Jones, the head of ELEVEN hadconvinced himself somehow that he was righting the wrong of his father's deathin the Twin Towers on September 11th. Clearly, this was an emotional battle andnot a rational one. He was a young man, angered at his father's death andlooking for someone to take it out on. He mistakenly equated all Muslims withterrorism and in his ignorance took the life of a young man wearing a turban anda young man leaving a mosque, neither of whom were Muslims, or terrorists forthat matter. When we jump to conclusions and let our cloudy emotions direct ouractions, we are bound to do things that do not make sense to others and later,that do not even make sense to us. Jones himself became a terrorist.