coming up with new ways for the good guys to escape or shoot the enemy and new ways for the enemies to die. The climax of the story was at the end when the main good guy, Neo, had one last fight with the main bad guy. The fight ends when Neo is finally killed but then he is suddenly resurrected and he kills the bad guy; the world is safe again. The plot was nothing more than the overdone myth of "good verses evil," in which after a long struggle, good wins. Here, I can conclude that the creators relied on nothing but violence to give the film any substance, but where I disagree with Medved is that this type of movie does not disturb the American public. I saw the movie with several friends, all that loved it. Later I found out that the film received great reviews and even won some awards. I think Hollywood produces too much violent content, but the sad part is that American moviegoers want it. Maybe this is because my experiences with films have taken place nine years after Medveds book was written and the public which once refused this sort of content in1991 has since been conditioned to seeing it and have come to expect nothing more.Hollywood responds to Medved's criticisms by claiming that popular culture has no impact on society whatsoever. First of all, it cannot be proven that the content of the media has any power to influence its audience. Secondly, it is society that influences Hollywood, there is violence, rape and murder in the real world, so why shouldn't films depict that truth? Third of all, Hollywood is an industry which produces entertainment, the public knows that what they see in films is all fabricated and they are able to dismiss the content as being fictional. Finally, if an individual disapproves of some or all of the media then they should just simply not participate in watching or listening to that which they find offensive.Medved is able to defend his side of the argument that popular culture indeed does have...
