A story about mass media and moral panic

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2019)

From this movies, the audiences are attracted to searching for the ture story and the ending. But after the story, the core ideal of this film is trying to shown how moral panic can results in social changes within the community.
From the story telling, Nick as the main male character who is be seeing as a suspect after his wife Amy's missing. Due to the society's favor to amy, Nick became a target of mass media. With all the television and newspaper's report, a moral panic within the community stared to growth. In this case, Nick became a threat in this community, also became a symbol of disgust. His friend and neighbor started to get away from him. And little by little, he became the 'most' hated man in America.
The moral panic made by mass media happend in this film is stronge enough to effect a huge community even it is a indicent between two individuals. And the end is satirized how easy the media erase Nick's society 'symbol' after the couple meet again. And shown that the power of media as a primary source of the public's knowledge.
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