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Representation

There are so many different kinds of relationships. Although I feel that relationships in movies are often false in a way. I’m here to describe the high school relationships that are represented in the media. In movies for example you always have a nerd (unpopular) character fall in love with the (popular) character and they end up happily ever after. The media shows so many different scenarios were this exact story line occurs and they all end up happy together in the end.

A media that proves this representation would be the movie to all the boys I’ve loved before, in this movie we have a girl who was unnoticed by this popular guy. It first started off when Lara got her love letters exposed, she wrote her love letters to all her past crushes. Her crush Josh ends up getting one of these letters and finds himself confronting her. Before you know it they start getting along and the movie ends up with them in love. I truly believe that all of these movies have the same story line.

Another media representation would be the movie Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. This movie is about a named Sierra who ends up talking to the popular football player. But the only reason why he is responding back to her is because of a mistaken identity. This boy ends up falling in love with Sierra yet he doesn’t know who she truly is. The mistaken identity leads him to think she’s is a extremely gorgeous blond model, which is not who she is behind the screen. At the end up the movie Sierra ends up coming out for who she actually is and despite of her looks he still falls in love and they end up happy.

This representation truly bothers me, in reality the (popular) guys would never noticed an (unpopular) girls, all of these romantic movies end with a happy ending. I feel that this media representation gives the wrong idea and is completely false. I feel the truth of young love and reality is not shown. I think it’s much deeper than shown in the media or on a screen.False hope is given to young girls, these girls who dream that this scenario would one day happened to them. In reality it almost never ends up this way.

As I’m going down the home stretch, some representation characteristics that I would retain are that no matter the social status, love doesn’t depend on how many people you know. You can love someone regardless of their skin color, religion, or popularity. I am going to challenge this representation by saying that some people do look at all of these characteristics. In reality people do care if you have money or you belong to a certain religion.