The movie We Are Marshall features the events culminating the ill fated Southern Airways Flight 932 that crashed after clipping trees just a mile off the run away as the West Virginia’s Marshall University football team was returning from an away match. 75 people lost their lives including 37 players and all of the coaching staff on board.
The community in Huntington West Virginia is devastated by this loss. It struggles between accepting the events leading to this accidents and putting things behind them. Being a very closely knit community they are in a position to decide on whether to continue with the football program or to discontinue it all together. The community at first regards the reinstitution of the football program as insensitive considering that they are still mourning. The president Donald Dedmon contemplates on suspending the program indefinitely (We are Marshall). He is however persuaded by the surviving players who consider football as a very important game to Marshall University.
The community also later wholly supports the keeping of the football program. The manner in which the Huntington community makes its decision shows that the community was really a united society. The individuals in this community care for each other’s feelings, considering that not every individual has a relative in the ill fated flight, and yet the community shares the loss as one social pact.
The individuals in this community are not only compassionate but also very understanding. The community reconsiders its decision of having the University suspend the football program indefinitely since the surviving members of the football team who had not made the trip due to injuries including Nate consider the game important to not only to the university but to the whole community as a healing process. The activities and the manner in which this community is presented display its unity and togetherness.
Work cited
We are Marshall. Dir. McG. 2006. DVD. Legendary Pictures, 2006.
