Materialism is basically the focus on material things. In the film over affluenza materialism was involved in many ways. As stated in the film affluenza is an unhappy condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. Materialism connects with affluenza, because when you focus just on material things this could make you very stressed and unhappy. Another thing mentioned in the film was how people spend more time shopping then with their children. This is an example of materialism because they would rather be buying things and gaining more stress and social destruction. Also, the film mentioned commercials and how they affect young kids. This grabs their attention and gets them preoccupied with material things. Also, commercials tend to target young kids more than adults just simply because kids are the ones to ask over and over again until they get what they want. Whereas adults they probably find them pointless and as if …show more content…
The movie is about Andrew Shepherd who is running for president and falls in love with one of the women he works with, Sydney Wade. The media then gets involved and people start to question their relationship, this in turns affects the amount of votes he receives and his chance of becoming president. So, therefore the media extremely impacted Andrews career and love life and left him up to a difficult decision. Then you have this year's election, even though it’s totally opposite of the movie it’s similar in one way. They both was impacted by the media. The media affected this year's election by throwing up unnecessary/personal things about both candidates. It then in turn got to everyone in the world and every had their own opinion on each of the candidates. So, the media affected the amount of votes that each candidate would receive and also their chance to become