Relationships, no matter what type or how serious they are, have there ups and downs as we all know or will get to know, yet the majority of music videos, movies, video clips and soap operas out there show one of those two sides, either the positive or the negative. For example, many music videos show how the singer is deeply in love with their partner, most of the time showing it in the sexual aspect of the relationship.
On the other hand, they have music videos showing how they have gotten hurt by their partner or miss them or something around that idea! This is the same for many romantic movies or soap operas. Either the couple is in a divorce or deep sexual relationship.
There is rarely a music video or movie that is based on true love showing its ups and downs and what a “perfect” relationship is like (not could be like), and when there is, it is very unrealistic to us after seeing from our own experience or what we view on the screen. For example, how many of you girls wished there was a guy like the guys in The Notebook, or in A Walk to Remember (both romantic movies that are not based on only the negative or sexual aspects of the relationship, yet on both the negative and positive aspects). It is possible, but unlikely to have such a deep-rooted relationship as the stories in these movies perceive to the audience.
Nowadays more soap operas based on relationships (husband and wife, boy friend and girlfriend) are increasing in number. The OC, an American Soap Opera, I feel is solidly focused on many relationships; marriages, divorces, long distance, break ups, young people with old people etc. These are all the types we, as the audience, know someone could have, but that doesn’t mean they way they are shown on the screen is how they end up in real life!
Many of us can relate to those stories to some degree and are equally affected as the actor or actress in their position at the time. If one is confused over an issue in their “love life” or relationship, it is easier to relate to the actors or singers. People get so into the soap opera or movie that they tend to not distinguish what is false and reality.
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I totally agree that most of the soap operas, movies and videos only show us either one of the two ends of the real story, the perfect relationship which most of the times means a sexual one, or the very brutal one where a heart is broken. Relationships have complex entities of their own and they cannot be learned from observing a fiction instead of living a reality. Personal experiences and how we are exposed to them when we watch our parents and we live them when we create our own is the reality. For it seems to me living a relationship and knowing how it functions with its good and bad, with its ups and downs is where each one of us learn the most and gets influenced. We should become more aware of the difference between what we see and reality and we should stop empathy every time we watch a show or see a video. How many times have I heard I want to have love at first sight and get married to a very handsome guy in the woods like Nancy Ajram? Hearing this makes me sympathize with those who live in those fantasies and dreams that television created for them instead of creating their own dreams. To some extent mass media’s influence on people’s perception of relationships crossed the limits but I believe there is more of an awareness and an understanding growing among the people about the situation and there are more people who are avoiding it and not allowing the media to effect their lives and relationships.
I totally agree that all the answers that we looking for in terms of our relation can be found in the T.V or magazine and also all of these love situations that portrayed by the media we can relate to them. But it only because the producers wants to get the most out of these show “money wise”
What we need to realize is that all what media shows us is only fake and it might lead us to live in a world that doesn’t exist and move us away from the reality.
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