Film Paper on A Stranger Among Us
In the movie "A Stranger Among Us" there are several characters that have their lives impacted by the events in the film. One such character is Ariel. Meeting Emily Eden, the murder of his best friend, and finding out who actually had a hand in the murder all has a profound impact upon Ariel.
After Ariel's best friend is reported missing, the NYPD sends detective Eden to the community to help and find out why he is missing and where he is. When they first meet, their worlds collide. To Ariel, I think he is very intrigued in the way she acts, because he has never met anyone like her within his community. His Hassidic upbringing does not allow him to be alone with a woman. So when he is alone talking to her he feels uncomfortable, which wares off during the course of the film. He is confused on the types of questions that she asks about his friend, like that he is a thief. After they find his friend dead, she moves in with his family in order to find out whom the killer is, probably making him a little uncomfortable. Ariel and his sister help in integrating Emily into the community, which helps him to understand her a little better. Ariel helps Emily in introducing her to people to help her to more integrated. During one scene, where they are having a sort of banquet, you can see them kind of catching glances at one another, suggesting that he is starting to get more intrigued about her. Another scene finds them alone at night on the porch talking about him and his beliefs, as well as her and her job. She has no problem, at this time, confessing her feelings for him but he cannot bring himself to confess to her his feelings. After she supposedly catches two suspects, killing one, she fin...
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...uch things? She turned out that all she was after was the diamonds and money, not looking to change her life around. They then force her to surrender, she doesn't, so Ariel ends up shooting her. This leads him to start crying in disbelief of what he had done, for it is against his beliefs to take another humans life no matter the consequences at hand. I think that he'll later come to terms that what he done was in defense of himself and of those around him. Which will make him feel better about himself down the road.
Finally, I believe that the events that Ariel had gone through changed him for the better. This is because he was so sheltered within his Hassidic lifestyle, he had no idea how anyone acted outside of his own community. These events help make him more aware of the world outside his own and would quite possibly make him a better person in this world.