Midnight Clear Film Analysis

Media is a way of mass communication, media is shown through movies, tv, books, news, internet, games, and more. The media delivers the news, stories, popular information, and more about war. What the media doesn’t show you is the effects veterans face after war. PTSD is a health condition that causes the victim to experience a previous terrifying event. Many veterans or active soldiers suffer this condition after the war, In the media we’ve looked at in class we can see the effects of PTSD and how it works. Sebastian Junger spoke at a Ted Talk about this condition and what it is and the many way it affects the suffering veteran. Midnight Clear, a movie about World War II and american soldiers fighting in the war. A scene of the movie shows the soldiers efforts to bring their friend “Mother” home and out of the war because he is suffering from PTSD. More is learned about this through PTSD handouts that tell everything you need to know about the condition. War itself is tough for soldiers but sometimes even what the veterans experience after war is just as tough, the media doesn’t show the effects veterans face during their time after serving Sebastian Junger did a Ted Talk, a short but powerful …show more content…
A scene in this movie shows one of the character's, Mother, named this for their caring to the soldiers, experiencing PTSD and bad. All of the troops around Mother are aware of this and they know that he needs help. To try to and bring Mother home they set up a fake battle to capture German troops so that Mother looks like a hero and can go home. This does not work because Mother hears the gunshots and rushes to the fake fight thinking it's real killing the german soldier and causing the death of one of their own. Its because of the Mothers PTSD that this happened and it was mentioned very subtly, that is the problem with the media, PTSD is not shown in these war