FREE ESSAY ON MAD CITY

MAD CITY

The movie Mad City demonstrates to us how the media can control our lives. The media is
willing to go to any length for the money a story can bring. Max portrays the role of
humanity in this film. Max represents the humanity of the media. He seems to be the only
trace of humanity in all of the media. Max starts out the story being a money-driver, but
he develops into a person. He began telling his intern that she should have taken her
camera with her to the wounded man. Why? It is that because his station would have gotten
the first close-up shots of him. That delivers more money. At the end of the movie, we
have seen the humane intern, who left the camera to go save a man's life, become an
inhuman, non-caring person. The first this she has to say about Sam is that he is
confetti. She just speaks of how much money the death of Sam with bring them. Saying that
a person is confetti; that is low. Also at the end, we see that Max has become humane. At
the end of the movie, Sam Bailey commits suicide. This shocks the entire world. Why does
it shock the entire world? Sadly, people commit suicide daily. It shocks the world
because the media wants it to make money. The media focused on it, so the rest of the
world did too. Max was the only person to feel compassion for Sam. He had developed a
relationship with Sam. He had guided him through this time of crisis. Max felt guilty for
the death of Sam. The media, of which he is a part, killed Sam. They turned the public
against Sam by interviewing every person associated or not associated with Sam in any
way. Some of these people had negative things to say. Max knew what was happening, and
the motive of money left him after a while. The media made Sam look bad, which made Sam
fear the future, which made him commit suicide. It is obvious that Sam was slightly
mentally disturbed before the incident at the museum. When he was fired, he became more
mentally disturbed, and as the pressure built up and as his public approval ratings went
down, he lost it and committed suicide. I believe that Max made it fairly obvious to the
media and the public that Max was going insane. The problem is that the media did not
respond to it. They followed the story on the path that would bring its monetary value
up. This path led them away from a safe incident and toward an incident that ended with
the loss of two lives. Had the media not given the negative image of Sam, he would have
been less pressured. His mental imbalance led on by the attacks of the media led him to
commit suicide.