Cease Fire Interrupter Film Analysis

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For example, in this documentary film, it shows scenes of how the Cease Fire Interrupters help in different ways to be leaders to juveniles in trouble. In a breathtaking scene, Ameena Matthews, a Cease Fire Interrupter, helps stop a fight from escalating to a devastating outcome by convincing a juvenile to walk away from the fight. In two shots, the film shows how Matthews convinces the young man to leave with her and distance himself from the fight. Matthews then states, “His family kept calling him, you know what’s taking you so long, so we can come back over there and set that block off, cause if his family would have come to get him, maybe it would have been a death behind it”. This statement was used to emphasize the importance of adult

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