When it comes to the influence of public opinion, I immediately think of two sentences: one sentence is said by Mencius: "Three people become a tiger"; the other sentence is said by Goebbels: "A lie repeated three times is the truth." When ordinary people like you and me are targeted or even hyped by the media because of a slightly novel little thing, what will we do as the parties involved?
A kind, reckless, and somewhat stupid father, Sam, was laid off just because the museum ran out of money. For his children, he went to the museum owner with guns and explosives, and the purpose was just to scare her and let her listen to his thoughts even for five minutes. This matter could have been resolved nicely. But under the instigation and hype of a group of reporters including the protagonist Max, the incident became more and more out of control, and finally ended in the tragedy of Sam's suicide.
"No drop of water thinks it has caused a flood." In today's highly streamlined life, the "parts" of society always know what they're doing. After the incident, the media set up cameras as soon as possible, the police set up the scene as soon as possible, the people who ate melons came forward as soon as possible, and the "civil rightsists" rushed to the scene as soon as possible to demonstrate... Everyone was doing their own thing. work, but no one paid attention to the lonely father in the museum. In front of this steel monster called "society", people seem so insignificant and powerless. It was they who finally pushed Sam into a corner.
If society is likened to a beast, then it is profit that feeds the beast and makes it "flaws its teeth and claws". For the sake of ratings, the media did everything possible to find "first-hand information", and even constantly fabricated a "friend of the suspect" to say what the audience wanted to hear; in order to show their ability to control the situation and make their future even smoother, the police The FBI deliberately expanded the situation, even shooting at children; spectators who had nothing to do with the incident expressed their own narrow views in order to make themselves famous and for interview fees. The most unacceptable thing to me is that the so-called "well-known anchors" headed by Kevin maliciously tampered with the video to destroy the parties for their own interests. The police are supposed to control the situation; the journalists are supposed to record the truth. But in the face of interests, professional ethics were shattered. When the kind girl who gave up video recording to save people became a black-hearted reporter who pursued sensation and ignored the facts, my heart ached. And the boss's line "she's your student" is a bit of a sarcasm to Max. Perhaps, in addition to earning money to make a living, those young media people entered the industry with the ideal of "defending the truth as their own responsibility", but as time passed, they were gradually assimilated and absorbed by the system, and became the same as them. Profit seekers. This is the saddest.
In the torrent of society, we gradually exhausted the warmth in our hearts, and became firm defenders of the system of "interest first" with a body of steel. Those who have the right to speak ignore the truth, and those who know the truth have no right to speak. As media people, they only recognize documents, but ignore human nature; they only recognize their bosses at work, but they forget the boss of being a human being—God. I am a believer in the system, but I see that they are an important part of the system, and tragedies like this cannot be solved by the system. Max's last sentence "We Killed Him" shocked me, but did it wake up the media and society?
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