Herzog One Second To The Next Analysis

“ From One Second To The Next”, A film by Werner Herzog, he repeats the quote “ It can wait” This quote describes how that one text can take lives of our loved ones with one blink. Throughout his film, he illustrates how we put innocent people in danger with our one mistake. He expresses the main point by using people who have suffered the pain of losing the life of their loved one. I agree with Herzog’s idea of a text that can be made later on instead of when you are driving. But I also disagree with the criminal system because it delivers a light sentence and does not deliver justice to the people who have grieved.
In Werner Herzog’s film “ One Second To The Next”, instead of giving his opinions, he films perspectives of surviving victims and some families who have suffered from the tragic accidents caused by texting and driving. He al so shows how the offenders have been affected. There were three to four families interviewed who have been badly distraught with the major problem of driving and texting. The director presented some of the offenders themselves, they

were upset and regret how one text was more important for them than those innocent lives. Families of the dying victims had mixed emotions; some were angry but many wished the offender all the best with forgiveness. Most of the offenders had learnt a significant lesson; unfortunately it was only after lives were taken. The delinquents tell how while texting and driving you lose focus from the road and can’t even see as your focus is just on your phone, as it is that addicting. Offenders explain how sending that last text message before they took the lives of young innocent people. Most of the offenders were young who committed this crime. Victims have been from active to inactive in their lives. All the offenders were barely punished for their crime with just minor charges. A text could wait but the lives can’t come back is what the director is trying to show us by using people who have experienced it.
I agree with the director’s idea of a text that could wait. By watching this film I was really disturbed, how the families were really affected and traumatized. One of the story that he shared was how little boy was totally dependent on his mom after he was on life support due to that one text by that driver that changed their lives forever. Texting and driving puts the safety of others at risk. Families should not suffer consequences for something when they have not committed anything wrong. One text can wait but lives can’t come back once they are gone. We often tend to forget that our one mistake of texting and driving can not only change our lives in a bad way but also another person’s. I remember when I was fifteen years old, I saw a young teenager texting and driving and he crashed into the pole. He was badly injured but he deserved it, atleast he didn’t kill any innocent life and paid the price himself for texting and driving. People need to remember that one day their loved ones can get snatched away from them with same mistake that they made. Everyone needs to take this matter more seriously so precious lives are not lost.

I disagree with the fact that offenders get a light sentence while the innocent families are punished for life.

In one scenario of the film an offender only paid the victim fifty thousand dollars, while the victim was billed over a million dollars. For this type of crime where families lose their loved ones, sentences should be stricter. Fines should be stricter if you are found on your phone while driving. There should be more approaches to reduce texting and driving that the government needs to come up with. I believe the offender should pay for all the extra costs that the victim has to endure. All they do is little bit of community service instead they should assist the family with their needs. Basically, the offender deserves harsher penalties for their wrongdoing. By making a sentence harsh it would have more influence on future generations about texting and driving. (PUT IN THE CURRENT

SENTENCE)
Herzog’s film illustrated how texting and driving changed the lives of both the person who was texting and the victim. He shows us different stories of those individuals who have been badly affected with this issue. He successfully films the offender’s perspective of what took place and the how they feel about it currently. I agree with the director’s idea of a text that could wait because it basically avoids all harmful consequences. The offender’s are left with regret for the choice they have chosen. Offenders were usually left in trauma because of how something minor like texting and driving can have such serious consequences. The offenders were all common people living their average lives but all made one common mistake, which caused their life to be full of regret and left the victims or their families full of sorrow and grief. Despite the mistake of texting and driving, I disagree with the strictness of the law. If harsher penalties’ are not given to offenders, justice will not be fully served and it won’t deter future generations from making this choice.