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Ryan West
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This documentary about the dangers of texting and driving had a profound emotional impact on the viewer. They felt sorrow for the victims and their families portrayed in the film. Recalling their own past experiences texting while driving, the viewer was depressed by how a single text could devastate a family. By the end, the emotional testimony and sad music led the viewer to vow never to text and drive again, since no text is worth putting lives at risk. Though difficult to watch, the film effectively conveyed the human cost of the problem and will influence the viewer to change their behavior.

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Emotional response to One second to the next Watching the film one second to the next is an emotional documentary that will have you thinking twice before you text and drive again. Through the whole video I could not help but feel bad about the times when I texted and drove. It made me think what if the whole time, and it is a scary thing to think about especially as a teenager.During the whole film I felt sorrow for the victims and their families, and a sense of disbelief at the whole thing. I couldnt believe how just one text could cause so much devastation in another familys life.With each passing story I continually got more depressed and started to thinking about the instances when I would text and drive on the way to school or even just around town. How could I be so selfish as to decide that that text was more important than the safety of everyone around me? At the very end of the documentary I swore to myself that I would try to never text and drive again because I do not value a text over a persons life. I do not wish to take someone from another family, just like I wouldnt want someone else to take someone from my family over a stupid text. In the film the main driving factors behind my emotional response was how emotional the speakers were and how upset they were while they were talking through the whole thing. Each time they spoke you could see the pain and sorrow in their eyes as if they were reliving the incident while they talked about it. Another thing was the emotionally sad and depressing background music that played, causing my already sad emotions to get worse. The music even started to stir memories of my own crash last year, no one was hurt, and brought back how I bad I felt and how sad I was at the time. This video is an emotionally jarring thing to watch, but I have no regrets from watching it. It has shown me what could have happened when I texted and drove, and I know now that it can wait no matter the text.

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  • 1. Emotional response to One second to the next Watching the film one second to the next is an emotional documentary that will have you thinking twice before you text and drive again. Through the whole video I could not help but feel bad about the times when I texted and drove. It made me think what if the whole time, and it is a scary thing to think about especially as a teenager.During the whole film I felt sorrow for the victims and their families, and a sense of disbelief at the whole thing. I couldnt believe how just one text could cause so much devastation in another familys life.With each passing story I continually got more depressed and started to thinking about the instances when I would text and drive on the way to school or even just around town. How could I be so selfish as to decide that that text was more important than the safety of everyone around me? At the very end of the documentary I swore to myself that I would try to never text and drive again because I do not value a text over a persons life. I do not wish to take someone from another family, just like I wouldnt want someone else to take someone from my family over a stupid text. In the film the main driving factors behind my emotional response was how emotional the speakers were and how upset they were while they were talking through the whole thing. Each time they spoke you could see the pain and sorrow in their eyes as if they were reliving the incident while they talked about it. Another thing was the emotionally sad and depressing background music that played, causing my already sad emotions to get worse. The music even started to stir memories of my own crash last year, no one was hurt, and brought back how I bad I felt and how sad I was at the time. This video is an emotionally jarring thing to watch, but I have no regrets from watching it. It has shown me what could have happened when I texted and drove, and I know now that it can wait no matter the text.