I thought the film interpretation of The Laramie Project did a very good job in showing how they interviews may have gone in real life. Some sentences in the book didn't make sense to me because I put emphasis on the wrong word, changing the meaning of the whole sentence; however, in the film, the actors put emphasis on a different world which changed the meaning of the sentence completely. The music in the film really helped to create emotion when telling the story of what happened the night Matthew Shepard was murdered. Another part of the film that helped me understand the book and sides of the argument was at one point when the theater was interviewing McKinney's friends. The interviewer asked her what McKinney thought of gays. She started saying that McKinney doesn't like gays, but stopped half way through her sentence, looked at the guy next to her (McKinney's friend that's a guy), and stuttered and changed what she was saying. It made me wonder, especially after seeing the interview with Doc O'Connor, if McKinney might actually be bisexual because she stopped and changed her sentence while looking at a close friend, that's male, of McKinney's. In one scene, a lady says "it could happen to any of us at any time," and the room went completely silent. I thought it added a lot of emotion because everyone stopped talking and there was a long pause which really made you think about what she had just said and how scary the truth was. Later, the leader of the Mormon church said that he wants the accused to have the death penalty, but that "I hope as he [Shepard] was tied to that fence, he thought about his lifestyle,". The camera slowly zoomed in onto the Mormon leaders face as he said this and the music was really quite which made it a very tense scene where the leader seems to care that Shepard was beaten, but at the same time he doesn't agree with the lifestyle and doesn't seem to show any sympathy for Shepard. I thought the film was a well done depiction of the play because the music and camera angles really added to the emotion of every scene. After that, we watched a speech that Obama made, concerning the new hate crime law, created for Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. I am glad that Obama understands these crimes and knows that it is wrong and was able to help support a new law. During his speech, he stated that 7600 hate crimes were committed in 2009 which really surprised me and bothered me. After that, he explained that the law is to stop any crime that wants to instill fear into other beings which I think is a good way of stating what a hate crime is.