Over the Edge Reflection- Birunthaa Jeyanandan


For me, while watching the video, I was unable to relate myself to Sam seeing as I don’t like taking life-threatening risks or putting myself into danger, but I do like the aspect of challenges, just as long they don’t involve mountain biking the way he did or anything else life threatening. Besides the fact of relating myself to him, I really enjoyed the video because it showed me that there are some people in the world who are born to do anything at any time, even though it can bring a danger to their life. While watching the video, I had no assumptions except one major one; he would die in the helicopter crash. Unfortunately, my assumption was partially true and partially not. He did die, specifically suicide in a jail cell not dying from a helicopter crash. It was pretty sad realizing that what caused his death was drug-smuggling, especially because he was very young. One part of the video which I did not seem to like was the way that the police were trying to capture Sam. The methods that they used almost put his life in danger. Their main goal was to capture Sam and have him in jail, but while I was watching the video, it almost seemed as if Sam’s life was in danger and that he would leave the world before entering jail. Thankfully though, he managed to live. Unfortunately, he was caught by the police and put in a jail cell.