To me, this movie was quite shocking. In the movie, the main characters, Veronica and JD kills one of the Heathers and two seniors. They try to conceal their crime by making the event to look like suicides. From the start, the story was terribly strange. However, what's even stranger was the attitude of the teachers in the school where they go to. After this tragedy of students committing suicide (according to what they know), they made this event seem like a cool thing. By doing some activities like sending messages to dead Heather and making a film about the memories of dead students, teachers were creating a mood. A strange one. Saying as if committing suicide is acceptable. As if death can bring people to be valuable and famous. In the movie, even parents of Veronica were influenced by the film that was on TV. As this mood of suicide became normal, medias such as TVs and radios started to talk more and more about this issue. As media became more flourishing, the students started to change their ideas about suicide. To them, suicide was not a far away thing anymore. Whenever they want to, they could commit suicide. One example was Veronica's close friend, who was once one of the Heathers. After many of her friends committed suicides (not actually, but she thinks like that), she became very depressed and try to kill herself. She was affected by the media which portrayed suicide as a common thing that can always happen. And, because she did not experienced suicide, it was even more difficult for her to figure out whether the information of the media was reliable or not. Different from this friend, the other friend, queen Bee started to gain more power by using the medias effectively. She tried to be the second queen in the group Heather. She participated in the film thing actively. She wanted to be the leader. Moreover, in JD's home, his father showed Veronica and JD, a TV news showing the destruction of a huge building. It was kind of portrayed in a dramatical way and JD's father felt happy and thrilled about it. These are all the strange things happened in this movie. In this movie, the media has a distinct role. It affects people.
Actually, I'd argue that it's more the student reactions to the suicide that matters: they are the ones creating the full page spread in the yearbook, they are the ones easily falling prey to the power of the media.
답글삭제If we are so easily affected by media, what consequences would this have considering the importance and pervasiveness it has in our lives today?