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23 Samantha Marie S. Frial
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John Q Movie Reflection Paper
There comes a time in our life that we may come to face challenges that would require us
to choose between life and death … if we would resort to a violent act in order to save someone
dear to us or just accept the reality and let that person die because you don’t have the means to
save his life.
In a moral and educated perspective, it was unjustifiable that John Q used violence in
order to get his son on the list of those who need a heart transplant. I get that he’s left with no
choice and he’s much too desperate to get his son the immediate surgery that he needs in order to
live but still, what he did was wrong. It was wrong in such a way that you captured 11 innocent
people (not to mention that they were all patients who needs treatment too) and held them as
hostage just to blackmail the police officers to do whatever you asked them to do. There are still