[Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector has trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and has under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister treats to move to Australia with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It’s a stranger called Grace who claims a mysterious kidnapper is keeping her daughter against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a prank? The detective he tried reporting the call to seem to think so but Bob’s instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death.]
There are two scenes in the movie “Connected” where communication theories about individual characteristics, psychological state and how our selection is influenced by the mass media, can be applied. The first scene is where Bob is answering a phone call from Grace. Bob’s first response to the call was that he thought Grace was a prank caller who was trying to be funny, and he tries to hang up on her. Bob was in a very difficult situation. He was under a tremendous pressure as he was trying to fulfill many different roles to be a better brother, better father and a better worker. He was not prepared to accept or even register another responsibility when Grace called. He had enough on his hands, trying to pull his life together and prevent disappointing his son yet again. That is why; Bob is more inclined to believe that the call is a prank call despite Grace’s desperate tone and urgent plea for help. Although this is a real life scenario where and individual’s personal experiences and psychological state can affect the way he responds to a situation even when the communication is clear. From this scene, we can realize how our current media has influenced and made us as confused as to what is reality and what is fake. These days, there are many reality TV programmes that produce or recreate fake situations made to look as if they are real just to entertain the viewers, or make us laugh at the hilarious scenarios.
The second scene is when Bob accidentally puts his hand phone in a man’s car. The car starts moving and Bob rushes behind the car. Then the man hears Grace’s urgent voice over the phone in his back seat and answers the phone. When this guy answered the phone, Grace panicked and mumbled some nonsense. When she realized that her improper communication might cost her life, if the man hung up, she wisely changes her strategy. She begins to talk to his guy, as if she is from a game show and asks this man whether he can see a man who is running after his car. The man is easily deceived and he stops the car but the consequence of stopping the car was that Bob takes over the man’s car and the man is left stranded. Through this man’s behavior, it is obvious that his perception is largely influenced by the mass media. Without any doubt, he stopped the car and let stranger (Bob) get in his car, after he heard that his was a game show from Grace. Through this scene, I felt that even though we make choices and decide to believe something by ourselves, even these choices might be made by our perceptions which have been formed and influenced by the mass media.
There are two scenes in the movie “Connected” where communication theories about individual characteristics, psychological state and how our selection is influenced by the mass media, can be applied. The first scene is where Bob is answering a phone call from Grace. Bob’s first response to the call was that he thought Grace was a prank caller who was trying to be funny, and he tries to hang up on her. Bob was in a very difficult situation. He was under a tremendous pressure as he was trying to fulfill many different roles to be a better brother, better father and a better worker. He was not prepared to accept or even register another responsibility when Grace called. He had enough on his hands, trying to pull his life together and prevent disappointing his son yet again. That is why; Bob is more inclined to believe that the call is a prank call despite Grace’s desperate tone and urgent plea for help. Although this is a real life scenario where and individual’s personal experiences and psychological state can affect the way he responds to a situation even when the communication is clear. From this scene, we can realize how our current media has influenced and made us as confused as to what is reality and what is fake. These days, there are many reality TV programmes that produce or recreate fake situations made to look as if they are real just to entertain the viewers, or make us laugh at the hilarious scenarios.
The second scene is when Bob accidentally puts his hand phone in a man’s car. The car starts moving and Bob rushes behind the car. Then the man hears Grace’s urgent voice over the phone in his back seat and answers the phone. When this guy answered the phone, Grace panicked and mumbled some nonsense. When she realized that her improper communication might cost her life, if the man hung up, she wisely changes her strategy. She begins to talk to his guy, as if she is from a game show and asks this man whether he can see a man who is running after his car. The man is easily deceived and he stops the car but the consequence of stopping the car was that Bob takes over the man’s car and the man is left stranded. Through this man’s behavior, it is obvious that his perception is largely influenced by the mass media. Without any doubt, he stopped the car and let stranger (Bob) get in his car, after he heard that his was a game show from Grace. Through this scene, I felt that even though we make choices and decide to believe something by ourselves, even these choices might be made by our perceptions which have been formed and influenced by the mass media.
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