This article, written by Lillie
Lainoff, addresses how Hollywood inaccurately depicts the lives of teenagers
with fatal diseases. This college student discusses how television shows and
movies, such as Red Band Society on
Fox, present a faux representation of how kids suffering life-threatening
illness live their lives. Lillie Lainoff establishes her credibility and ethos
through this article with presenting her education, a college student at Yale
University, and her own personal experience on the topic. Lainoff suffers with postural
orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, an automatic nervous system disorder. Her
personal anecdote on being in the hospital and constantly living with a
terrible disease creates a juxtaposition of the portrayal television networks produce
versus the real life struggle of living with a disease. Lainoff presents an
antithesis to the quote by one of the characters in the show Red Band Society, about how life starts
when you arrive at the hospital and they aren’t able to cut into your soul. To
many, these words would be empowering coming from a suffering patient, but to
Lillie Lainoff these words evoke feelings of pain and anger. She continues on
to show how these statements are completely inaccurate to the true life of a
sick teenager. Her intended audience is the viewers of these shows and movies,
to thoroughly explain how although these shows may receive five stars, they are
completely glamorized ideas of brutal situations to make money. Lainoff
suggests that sugarcoating terminally ill patients lives is the new obsession
of Hollywood, just like past fazes of shows about vampires and normal high
school drama. I fully support Lillie Lainoff and her stance on the corruption
of Hollywood on specific topics. I think she provided perfect evidence through
life experience to disprove the presentation of popular television shows and
movies.
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| Tony Maglio |
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