In both the movies "Reign over me" and "Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud" they both tell the stories of 2 different people in what happened before and after 9/11 and after 9/11. They both tell about how they lost their families or family member the difference is that they are told by an adult and the other story is told by a child.
     The first movie I'm going to talk about is "Reign Over Me".  This story takes place in New York City and it makes the most sense of 9/11 and its effect on people by showing the effect years later. The story begins when Alan was dropping off his daughter at a friends house and see's his old friend Charlie driving around on his little scooter. Alan tried to talk to him but Charlie couldn't hear him because he was listening to music. He disappeared for a while then Alan saw him again and stopped him and had some lunch with him. After Alan had some lunch with him Charlie wanted to hang out with him some more and from that point on he has been trying to help his old friend out.  But helping him isn't easy, Charlie has a few problems like how whoever brings up his family he explodes on them or if someone tries to get him to do counseling he'll think that his step-parents are trying to get his friend to try and make him do counseling so he'll explode.
     The final movie I'm going to talk about now is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"  The movie also takes place in New York City and it start with Oscar and his dad having a good time with each other. But the next day wasn't such a good one because 9/11 happened that day. After 9/11 Oscar started to go down a long hard slide where he disrespected his mother and hurts himself when whenever he gets frustrated. One year passes by and then he finally gets the courage to go in his fathers closet and goes through his stuff. He finds the paper his dad gave him before 9/11 as he is pulling the box down a blue vase falls and shatters. as it shatters a paper sack falls out and he picks it up in the sack there is a key and that is what started the search.
     "Reign Over Me" appeared more powerful to me because the story of losing his family was very eye opening and the fact he took it so hard.