American Strike- A Quest for Truth.

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Option: My choice of text is linked to the topics chosen in class: media and global issues.

Title: "American Strike- A Quest for Truth"

Category number and task: Category number one, film review.

Objectives: To analyse the aspects of the film that relate to the topics discussed in class in a manner that suits the text's context and audience.

Context: Art magazine dealing with books, plays, films, and art in general.

Audience: The target audience of the text will be the span of people that buy and read the magazine in which it is published, this means that it would be a somewhat reduced and specific group of people.

Link to what we have studied: The production is linked to the topics discussed in class: media and global issues. Although the latter may not appear at first glance, the text does indeed deal with human nature, and this is deeply connected with global issues.

AMERICAN STRIKE

A Quest for Truth

Michael Moore's documentary "Bowling for Columbine" questions the core of the American society in an ingenious and original way. The movie manages to combine the right amount of humour and seriousness, creating a special balance that makes the audience burst into laughter and at times collapse in tears... But most important of all: it makes the viewer think.
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It contains a refreshingly moving substance that ignites the, lets say, occidental citizen's seemingly dormant critical judgment. Truth, or the search for it has become somewhat lenient in our western society. Amongst other things, it suffers daily blows from the picky and exaggerated media. The chosen topics to publish may be in fact real, or truthful; but the media chooses what to publish and what not to, choice in which the news that sells outbalances in a significant way the news that doesn't. In other words, blood, violence, sex and any type of news that arouses the general ...

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