Reel Works

This particular Reel Works documentary was interesting but biased. The population sampled for the interviews came from a limited region and gender was disproportionally represented, both of which could potentially lead to inaccurate ideas.

The region and socioeconomic status led to an innaccurate portrayal of youth. The majority of the kids seen in this documentary came from divorced, lower middle class inner city homes. The kids that were interviewed talked about the big problem that sex and alcohol was within their community, and most admitted to participating in both. If this same interview was given to kids in an upper-class suburb of Hollywood, the results would likely be different. The conditions in which these kids were brought up in more than likely led to a majority of the behavior seen.

Gender was unequally represented in this documentary. With a total of around 10 individuals being interviewed, only two were males. The message conveyed was that males are emotionless, and only concerned about one thing: sex. Both sexes interviewed shared the beleif that relationships were not worth the pain that they would potentially cause, proabably a direct result of divorce within their own homes.

This documentary was inaccurate and biased. The purpose of this documentary was, in my opinion, to give the appearance that all young teenagers were sexually active and males are insensitive; both of which suggest youth that are spiraling out of control. In order to make a more accurate arguement, the author should have gotten a more diverse, universal pool of interviewees.