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The Citizen
2012 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Sam Kadi
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September terrorist attacks forever shape the struggles he faces on his journey to capture the American dream.
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I mean, I don't live in any state of perpetual fear or anything, and I haven't changed my habits based on it at all (aside from avoiding areas that actively have like 5+ cop cars on the scene at the moment, because traffic there is going to be awful).
I filter it out mentally the same way I filter out restaurants I don't like when searching for a place to eat nearby on google maps. That doesn't make google maps a useless or bad tool. Same idea here.
And no, I don't think that advertising doesn't affect me. It sometimes can give me options I wasn't aware of (e.g., a new subaru car being prominently featured in a good movie, almost definitely as a product placement), which I would filter out as well (which means doing my research on that car, doing a test drive, etc.). Except with Citizen, filtering out is an effort that takes only a few seconds (does the post have video of the actual incident? does the post have confirmed and verified info, such as a number of bullet shells being recovered? or is it just "report filed" or "people on the scene claim"?).