Film reflection: “MissRepresentation”
With the advent of television, the media has been an inseparable part of the modern life in the recent few decades. Media is everywhere, especially in the youth lifestyle. Most of teenagers grow up watching TV because it’s the easiest way to spend their spare time. As time passed, their tastes and values became what the social media want them to have. But how bad could it get?
Social media is not about the media; it’s about the social. Which means that when we use social media, we are just sharing social information that should have been only a minor part of life but instead, we take it way more seriously. Not just that, the contents of social media are indecent. There’re just too many erotic exposed scenes, on the female body particularly. It has negative impacts on teenagers or even children. In …show more content…
And our daily life is overwhelmed with those messages, even the fact that almost every female actresses or singers are all sexy. “Women’s bodies and selling were identified: representations of women become commodities that film producers were able to exchange in return for money” . Seeing all this could reinforce the idea of women are sex objects. The materialization of women is everywhere, we can often see pictures of certain parts of female body in fashion magazines or commercials, but on the contrary, in the commercial of male products, it usually tells the concept of love or success. By contrast, female products only show the sexuality of female body. Naturally, in this edification, teenage girls would lost their will give up being self-independent and the true value of the pursuit of self-worth. In the long term, when those teenagers grow up, are they going to have the right values? If a married couple, who was raised in this concept of “women are sex objects”, what their life would be? Probably the old fashion way, the husband is out working but the
With the advent of television, the media has been an inseparable part of the modern life in the recent few decades. Media is everywhere, especially in the youth lifestyle. Most of teenagers grow up watching TV because it’s the easiest way to spend their spare time. As time passed, their tastes and values became what the social media want them to have. But how bad could it get?
Social media is not about the media; it’s about the social. Which means that when we use social media, we are just sharing social information that should have been only a minor part of life but instead, we take it way more seriously. Not just that, the contents of social media are indecent. There’re just too many erotic exposed scenes, on the female body particularly. It has negative impacts on teenagers or even children. In …show more content…
And our daily life is overwhelmed with those messages, even the fact that almost every female actresses or singers are all sexy. “Women’s bodies and selling were identified: representations of women become commodities that film producers were able to exchange in return for money” . Seeing all this could reinforce the idea of women are sex objects. The materialization of women is everywhere, we can often see pictures of certain parts of female body in fashion magazines or commercials, but on the contrary, in the commercial of male products, it usually tells the concept of love or success. By contrast, female products only show the sexuality of female body. Naturally, in this edification, teenage girls would lost their will give up being self-independent and the true value of the pursuit of self-worth. In the long term, when those teenagers grow up, are they going to have the right values? If a married couple, who was raised in this concept of “women are sex objects”, what their life would be? Probably the old fashion way, the husband is out working but the