Spin the Bottle

November 20, 2009 stuva17

The movie “Spin the Bottle” was very interesting; I enjoyed watching this movie more than some of the other movies that we have watched. I thought that the people they had speaking in this movie were being realistic and they were not over exaggerating the importance of this issue of underage drinking.

This movie emphasized the fact that alcohol in advertisements are very glamorized, that the ads always show the high point or positives of drinking and alcohol; but they will never show the low points or the negatives. They explained how advertisers exploit the idea of if you drink you will meet and beautiful woman, or you will end up in bed with one or more girls even if you are just an average looking guy.

One effective strategy that this movie had that previous movies did not; was they had kids speaking their mind and talking about either their own personal experiences or ones that they have watched their friends go through. All of them agreed that the way drinking is portrayed in movies makes getting completely wasted a right of passage. That kids need to drink to be accepted in college and it is also just thought of as something that everyone does, no one really takes into consideration the negative effects of alcohol because they are never shown in movies or ads or any other type of media.

One thing that was mentioned often was how kids because that is what they are expected to do, and then they think they can just turn off the drinking habits once they leave college. But the reality is that they are turning themselves into full-fledged alcoholics. This happens because students drink so heavily in college that they don’t know how to “turn it off” when they leave and their not kids anymore.

This movie went into specifics about men and women, which I thought was fascinating because it really tried to tell you that for men drinking was all about how much you could drink and if you could get in bed with someone by the end of the night. Whereas with women they drink because it is said that a girl should be good and studious during the day, but be a bad drinking machine at night. And most woman don’t drink beer because they want to avoid the calories so they drink hard liquor which ends up intoxicating them quicker than if they would have drank the beer. And a lot of times woman will make themselves so drunk that they throw up at the end of the night just so they can avoid gaining the calories from the drinks which can lead to serious eating disorders.

I thought that this movie was exceptional! I really enjoyed watching it and realizing that the media has the biggest role in making kids think that it is okay to drink before they are twenty one and drinking excessive amounts.

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