The Bling Ring Escapism Analysis

Cinematic depictions of real life can sometimes be a bit fantastical or outside of what is seen as normal way to display story that holds some truth about reality, but it has always been that way, only in different form, in the early 1900’s there was The Great Gatsby in book form, that showed the American Dream and materialism has stemmed from it but now that we have the capabilities to produce realistic visual depictions people are weary of accepting cinematic depictions as credible. In recent years there have been a number of movies that have shared a number of flaws with the thinking that has been bred from the American Dream, including the 2015 film “The Bling Ring”. At first glance- probably the second glance as well- it looks like “escapists …show more content…
The coping mechanisms that people use in order to try to comfortable in society could in part be attributed to this type of thinking. The truth of the matter is that there are haves and have-nots whether people like it or not, there always will be, and everyone is aware of that, and they understandably do not want to be on the losing side of that dichotomy or like it if they are, so to try to make up for the deficiencies in their lives, they try to distract themselves with, in this case, material possession, sports, meaningless things, or goofy religions, like Laurie, Emma Watson’s mother in the film, in order to avoid this empty feeling, that Mark Olsen refers to it as, “spiritual malaise”, with those meaningless things that do not answer the problems they face or things they feel, they only cause a person to avoid self-examination that hinders their development in their pursuit of …show more content…
It causes them to become belligerent when discussing America because along with pride comes arrogance that causes people to become protective of the country or a subset within the country, and it makes them become more and more protective of what they hold dear People have become more and more intolerant of opposing views to the point where no actual discussion of issues occurs, instead people on all sides, of what is supposed to be rational discourse, resort to hasty generalizations and ad hominem attacks, which hampers any progress that could be done otherwise. To top off those glaring issues, the linkage mechanism that essential to maintaining a healthy democracy are on life support because there is a sentiment, that political parties, news organization, and individual politicians, are being bought