Don't be so childish !

I agree with you, and I believe you catch what author say and summary it well.

I’ve found your interesting view argument is similar to the chicken and egg debate. And I believe you approach example with freshness.

I agreed with Gabler assessment in my answer, but you are not. I can find your different view in author assessment, and I can agree with you, because I didn’t think of it. Author only talk about happy ending movie, but you say a lots of movie also has traumatizing ending. Yes, it is. However, author say not only talk about ending of movie. Life-style has changed like movie, so we need to wake up from this fantasy. That’s what I think main point in this essay.

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Authored by: Sarah Whalen
Authored on: Jun 21, 2011 10:19 PM
Subject: Gabler Discussion

Gabler has blamed entertainment for affecting our lives in several ways. He starts by addressing the hype media gives to true life melodramas. This effects how we dress, act and even what we use in our daily lives. We start to become whoever is portrayed in our favorite movies and forget to be ourselves even when we are “off stage”. Gabler uncovers our desperate attempts to play the part. Although they become daily goals, he worries we will lose our true purpose in life, perpetual happiness.

The argument that we now shape our lives to movies is similar to the chicken and egg debate. Gabler stands firm on the theory of modern life resembling movies. One way I have seen this proven true is the idea that the love of your life is exactly like Prince Charming as long as you behave like Cinderella. As a result women nitpick at man’s imperfections. Movies also encourage men to pursue women who say no whether it is to over come a challenge satisfying their personal desires. Then there is the idea that every heroic man is muscular and strong internally and externally.

I strongly disagree with Gabler. Examples supporting his case do not proof that entertainment isn’t still depicting life rather than vice versa. Who’s to say our lives have just raised standards for movies and such things? He is generalizing all amusements as having a happy ending, where in my opinion, some of the best fictions have traumatizing endings. The entertainment Gabler suggests is for the simple mind. Yes America has become lazy in pursuing brainteasers; plenty still crave new tantalizing pleasures. The movie Requiem for a Dream shows the sorrows of a mundane lifestyle turned to drug addiction. It tortures the heart while exciting the subconscious mind. I have read The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, Of Mice and Men, and several other classic books for the joy of it. The type of person Gabler describes is a fraction of America, our black sheep who are lazy and just plain stupid.