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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower tells the tale of a Charlie, an extremely shy introvert, and his experiences in his first year of high school. The movie started with a letter by Charlie to an anonymous friend about his problems and how he wish to change in high school. He didn’t really change and was harassed by his fellow students, but he did make a friend in is literature teacher. Later and he met two seniors who welcomed him into their circle of friends and showed him a place where he belonged. The movies goes through the hardships, the problems, the fun times, and the sad times of Charlie as he goes through his first year of high school with these group of seniors.

One of the biggest things in the movie was the idea of conformity. Charlie, in his letter at the beginning of the movie, tells the viewers that he had problems prior to high school and didn’t really talk to anyone outside his house all summer. He wished to change this when he goes into high school. It didn’t work out and instead he shied away from anything that comes in his path.

In his Advanced English class the teacher would ask the class questions that no one seems to know the answer to (“which author invented the paperback book”). Charlie knew the answer but wouldn’t raise his hand. Instead he wrote them down on paper in front of him and when the teacher walked by he saw. With his next question he even threw out the incentive of a “free A on anything except the final term paper”, but Charlie still didn’t raise his hand. After class the teacher asked him “why didn’t you raise your hand.”

Throughout the movie Charlie always acted like an awkward kid (even after he joins the seniors group) and it took people with stronger personalities to force him even slightly out of his shell. Despite his awkwardness and shyness, after spending time with his friends and conforming slightly to their style, he started to act a bit more outgoing.

The film also goings into social norms and how some things needs to be kept hidden. An example is when Charlie found out that his friend was gay by walking into his friend’s bedroom during a party and finding him kissing with another guy. When Charlie walked out of the room, his friend came out and told him to keep it a secret. It’s understandable since through the movie the words “fag” and “faggot” had been used as general insults thrown around the school and sticking your neck out in this situation would be committing social suicide. In addition to that the town is predominately Christian and the viewers often see Christian rituals and church attendance. Indeed one day Charlie’s friend’s partner’s dad did find out and started beating his kid. That ended that relationship.

The movie also talked about child abuse. Throughout the movie we often see cuts of when Charlie was younger or events from the past interwoven with the present scenery. Sometimes is because Charlie is either stoned or high but later in the film the viewer’s does find out that Charlie does have a problem and see visions. Apparently what happened in the past was that Charlie’s aunt had sexually assaulted him and he repressed those memories. In addition to that on one day his aunt went out to buy a present for him but was hit by a truck and died. Charlie blames himself for that. After working it out for a few weeks at the hospital he came out seemingly better and not as weird or awkward.

The film does a good job portraying kids in their youths in high school and the problems they go through. Looking at this film from where I am in life (almost graduating college) reminds me a lot of the times I went through in high school. Sure my high school life was not as weird as Charlie’s, but we all know a person like Patrick, who finds his awkwardness and pain behind a show of extraverted confidence. We all know a person like Charlie who is observant and quiet who is always agreeing, trying to fit in. We all a person like Sam who lacks self-esteem and seeks attention and undervalues herself. The characters and stories seems to strike out at you. And you get to see the shy, introverted Charlie slowly grow over the course of the movie, and even though he is still introverted at the end, he realized that, despite everything, they are alive and “[they] are infinite.”

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Miss Representation

The documentary, “Miss representation” is all about when is it going to be enough? The youth are doing things to be and accepted and to fit in and it’s never enough. The idea of beauty is so extreme young kids are developing eating disorders, harming themselves and trying to achieve this impossible idea of beauty. Young men are judging these girls off of the unrealistic standards that the girls are trying to accomplish. “The media is shaping our child’s mind.” The media has been conditioning child’s minds their entire lives. Those images are impacting children everyday. From a very young age, girls are taught what’s most important is how they look, while boys are taught it’s about how girls look. On average women in the U.S spend 12,000$ trying to accomplish the unrealistic standards of society. Self-objectification is becoming a big problem. Not only are men seeing women as objects, women are seeing themselves as merely tools as well. Women’s objectification is something that society says is acceptable. The media is sending girls messages that their only value lies in their bodies. It’s holding women back from higher positions and positions of power. In media women are always taught to be insecure. Their insecurities are seen as they try to become this image that society creates for them. If we think about children movies all the women had the same theme, looking for love or a man. It’s never about their agency, we may see movies where we think it’s about their autonomy. But as the documentary said, as we begin to peel layers back we see the true intentions of the characters played by women. Their are women in higher positions, CEO’s and positions that don’t involve sex for success. But the problem is we aren’t seeing that. We aren’t seeing that in any type of the media. We are teaching young girls this is what they should amount to be. Throughout any type of mass media we seen women portrayed as sex objects, they are “body props”. We’re socializing boys that being a man means being powerful, smarter than women and in control. I believe the documentary shines necessary light on so many issues about gender, the work force, success and most of media. But I'm questionable of it's going to help. People need to watch more things like this so they can question their own lives and how it's effected by media. Media starts conditioning children at such a young age, it's almost impossible to get away from. From their first Disney movie they are talking messages that don't positively prepare them for their future. The media is a strong tool and we have to watch bs unit ourself or we will continue to be salves to it.

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