Jean Kilbourne's movie

In class when we watched Jean Kilbourne's movie, "Killing Us Softly," I thought it was really good and an eye-opener for her audience. Kilbourne's message that she sends out is that we should all take advertising seriously. The average person is exposed to 3000 advertisements a day. She believes that the media, especially advertisements, tells us who we are and who we should be. Advertisements also surround us with what the media believes to be ideal women's beauty but what not many know, especially young teens, is that models are touched up on the computer after the photo shoots. So basically, here are these young and poorly influenced teens that want this so-called "perfect" body and "perfect, blemish-free face." All of this to Kilbourne is unfortunate and she thinks it needs to stop immediately and her urgency is clear in her movie.

I agree with Kilbourne completely. Unfortunately, I don't see people really finding the urgency to change their mind-set. In fact, I think it's already ingrained in our American minds.