Girls Trip Analysis
Girls Trip Provides a Glimpse Into the Lives of 21st Century Americans
If you take a quick look around you, chances are that you will see someone texting on their phone, watching TMZ, or making out. Living in America in the 21st century is both a blessing and a curse for its civilians. While there is greater access to resources and information than ever before in the areas of technology, medicine, and education, people are more focused on the more pleasurable and dangerous aspects of society including sex, social media, and alcohol. Since we are talking about the pleasurable aspects of society, the new blockbuster movie Girls Trip, released in mid-July, provides the audience with a look into what it is like to currently live society.
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I think that although the movie is slightly more exaggerated than what would actually occur in real life, the intention behind it is still the same being both inappropriate and immature. In the film, Dina is not married and hints to the audience that she does not have any problems at all with the concept of premarital sex. This represents a vast majority the beliefs of people in our culture today compared to previous generations and their views on premarital sex. According to the statistics, “in the early 1970s, 29% of Americans (35% of men and 23% of women) believed that premarital sex was ‘not wrong at all.’ This rose to around 42%in the 1980s and stayed there through the 1990s, rising to 49% in the 2000s and to 55% in the 2010s (59% of men, 52% of women)…. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 47% of Boomers in the early 1970s believed premarital sex was ‘not wrong at all,’ compared to 50% of GenX’ers in the early 1990s and 62% of Millennials in the 2010s” (Twenge,J M,et al). There is evidence to prove the case about how 62% of Millennials do not believe that premarital sex is wrong at all and is the common view among several of the characters in Girls Trip including Dina. My parents’ generation though has a significantly lower percentage around 29% which shows the drastic change in our culture today as represented in the
If you take a quick look around you, chances are that you will see someone texting on their phone, watching TMZ, or making out. Living in America in the 21st century is both a blessing and a curse for its civilians. While there is greater access to resources and information than ever before in the areas of technology, medicine, and education, people are more focused on the more pleasurable and dangerous aspects of society including sex, social media, and alcohol. Since we are talking about the pleasurable aspects of society, the new blockbuster movie Girls Trip, released in mid-July, provides the audience with a look into what it is like to currently live society.
Girls …show more content…
I think that although the movie is slightly more exaggerated than what would actually occur in real life, the intention behind it is still the same being both inappropriate and immature. In the film, Dina is not married and hints to the audience that she does not have any problems at all with the concept of premarital sex. This represents a vast majority the beliefs of people in our culture today compared to previous generations and their views on premarital sex. According to the statistics, “in the early 1970s, 29% of Americans (35% of men and 23% of women) believed that premarital sex was ‘not wrong at all.’ This rose to around 42%in the 1980s and stayed there through the 1990s, rising to 49% in the 2000s and to 55% in the 2010s (59% of men, 52% of women)…. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 47% of Boomers in the early 1970s believed premarital sex was ‘not wrong at all,’ compared to 50% of GenX’ers in the early 1990s and 62% of Millennials in the 2010s” (Twenge,J M,et al). There is evidence to prove the case about how 62% of Millennials do not believe that premarital sex is wrong at all and is the common view among several of the characters in Girls Trip including Dina. My parents’ generation though has a significantly lower percentage around 29% which shows the drastic change in our culture today as represented in the