Mad City: Movie Analysis Of How The Media Controls Our Lives

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The movie Mad City demonstrates to us how the media can control our lives. The media is willing to go to any length for the money a story can bring. Max portrays the role of humanity in this film. Max represents the humanity of the media. He seems to be the only trace of humanity in all of the media.

Max starts out the story being a money-driver, but he develops into a person. He began telling his intern that she should have taken her camera with her to the wounded man. Why? It is that because his station would have gotten the first close-up shots of him. That delivers more money. At the end of the movie, we have seen the humane intern, who left the camera to go save a man's life, become an inhuman, non-caring person. The first this she has to say about Sa...

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