'Tsunami the aftermath' is a video about the problems surfaced after a Tsunami and it happened in Thailand in 2004, it is based on research and interviews to show the people around the world visually about Tsunami and how does it affected the people. The issues regarding the video and categorized as social, economic and political.
The social issue in the movie was burning bodies without identification. In the movie, a scene of monks are seen burning dead bodies without identification and informing the deceased's loved ones. Their purpose of burning the dead bodies is so that they could prevent/stop infection from spreading. This is a case of moral dilemma because in a person's perspective it is morally wrong to dispose the dead bodies wihout informing the deceased's loved ones. The families of these dead bodies have the right to know if they are dead or alive or else they will be living in doubts, it will be a living hell experience for them. If they keep the dead bodies any longer, fatal infection may spread around and affect the living people around them, then more people would die. This is an irresponsible act. In this scenario, I would suggest them to take pictures of all the dead bodies before burning them so that their families would be informed if they are dead or alive. Again, this is just my opnion. Different people has different opinions regarding morals.
Another social issue was regarding the chaos, confusion and looting that took place after the disaster. Chaos was when the villages and hotels affected and destroyed and the places are in the mess with casualties and dead bodies all over the places. The people who survived the natural disaster were left in confusion and questioning whether their family memebers with them are safe and sound. Wondering if they could pull this through while the foreigners would wonder how are they able to get home. A family of westerners in the movie, a man died on his way to the hospital leaving his wife and two sons. His death left his family devasted and it could leave his wife thinking how is she able to support her two sons alone and more questions running through her mind. In the video looting was seen. It is when people steal things from the surroundings or even expensive jewelry from dead people and these people could have taken important belongings from deceased which meant alot to their family members.
The economic issue in this video is that there will be economic losses by investors in Thailand and it would also affect the confidence in Thailand of the investors'. Thailand would need finance to rebuild all the destroed buildings and the hotels affected suffered heavy losses. In one of the scene, one of the man from the press said " That is a lot of unpaid room service." it is infact true as given the situation, they could not get payment from the guests and instead they have to spend more money in rebuilding the hotel.
Lastly is the issue regarding political. The government was warned of the impending Tsunami but did not set up a warning system. The government should have set up a warning system to warn the people and maybe more people could survive the natural disaster by making their escape earlier before the Tsunami came. In fact, the arears affected had poor accessibilty, they do not have exit routes and none of the people are briefed about safety and plans of escaping when natural disasters striked them. Relief efforts were inadequate and evacuation by embassies from different countriesn were too slow. The local government did not do much to help those victims in villages. Embassies from other countries were slow in evacuating their people and as a result of that, people suffer just like one boy in the movie, he had to amputate his legs to stop the virus from spreading. The hospitals in Thailand did not have the equipments and proper treatment and thus the boy had to have his legs amputated to save his life. If the embassy had evacuated him earlier, he could have received treatment and would not have to have his legs amputated.
From this video, I hope that it could spread the awareness of Tsunami and it could teach the people the right way to respond to it and have better accessibilty around. It is also important to have exit routes and a well-planned escape to increase the chances of survivors when natural disasters happened.
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