The trailer of Miss Representation states that "most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don't have any". It uncovers a glaring reality that we live with with every day but we fail to see, which is the influences of medias on the false interpretations or representations on both males and females. In the film, it reveals the fact that American teenagers spent 31 hours watching TV, 17 hours listening to music, 3 watching movies, 4 watching magazines 10 hours surfing on the Interned and 10 hours and 45 minutes using media each day.
The multi-medias are shaping the individual including children, society and even the entire world. The documentary is trying to express the truth that girls are getting messages about how they are gonna look like while boys got messages that what is important about girls. We are getting these messages through videos games, advertisements, movies and so on.
I agreed with the documentary that the medias especially the Internet is spreading the biased or distorted messages to us. It has become so powerful since the Internet is instant and wide-spread. We usually believes that girls should be be beautiful and boys should be handsome from the stories diving childhood. Moreover, the media is spreading the concept that girls should be sexy and males should be powerful. However, this is not true. People shouldn't judge a book by its cover as well as a person. We have failed to perceive the intrinsic intelligence of humans since they have being concealed by the appearances of a person. In the film, high school girls spend their breaks between classes to put on make ups and many of them has been annoyed by the judgment basing on the appearances.
The another issue that has been mentioned in the documentary is that women has 51% of proportions of the entire US population, however, females only got 17% in the house of representation and senates. the Media has been manipulated by males and girls have to collaborate and get rid of the ideas spread by the medias in order to become more power and getting equal clouts.
The film challenges the disparaging portrayals of women limited by medias. Although media, the most persuasive power nowadays, is expressing the ideas of girls being sexually attracting, boys being powerful, and violent scenes, the multi-media is still the effective instruments to make our world better place.
