"Final Exam"

Title:"Final Exam"
By:Jordan Evans
     "Does Hollywood, and "The Media" in general, define our society and remake our history? When asked to answer this question, I knew exactly what to say. Our society now a days is determined by what we watch and hear on the TV, video games, and even on the newest social media apps. In films, Hollywood likes to downplay events to make it seem like nothing that U.S. is doing is wrong.  there is never a movie where the U.S. is the villain. There are many war movies that inaccurately depict events that happened in this world today, and the worst part about it all is that the viewers belive what is being put out in the world because a "professional" created the film. Nobody likes to rely on the historical text books or the old documents anymore. They want the information at a demand, and even if the information is wrong they still believe it just because it's on the media. Hollywood has a knack for recreating our history. They add events or downplay events to make it seem like everything will be all fine or that events that happened are not so gruesome as they really were.
     In the present day, anybody can search on the internet and type in "The American Revolutionary War". They see the first link, click on it, and start taking notes on whatever the website tells them happened. The good thing about all of it is that you can obtain information at a very fast pace, the bad thing is that you could be receiving the wrong information and not even know. The past has most definitely been changed by the media in ways that we can't even imagine. The past has been lost through the governments eyes.
     In the movie "Plattoon" the filmmakers made it seem like Vietnam was hell, and I praise them for that. They showed the audience the gruesomeness of the Vietnam war, and what the soldiers had to go through to survive, and make it out alive. I remember reading an article about two little girls, and how one of the girls stabbed her friend 25 times because the video games that they were playing showed stabbing and violence. The media has such an impact on children these days that it is unbelievable. The fact that a girl believed it is right to stab her friend because a video game showed it is beyond disgusting. The world really needs to revaluate the role that "the media" has on us.