Monga’s
Effect? The Problem of Youth Aggressive Imitation on the Violent Movie
According to the reporter from TVBS, Yi
Shen He’s report, a gang fight between two student’s groups occurred in a
junior high school in Kaohsiung County. Because of the misunderstanding on the
phone which proceeded into a collision, two student’s groups from two different
schools assembled on the campus and engaged in the gang fight. This fight caused
four students wounded and the other students sent into the Police Officer. One
of the participant students confessed that they imitated the ‘brotherhood’ in
Taiwanese gangster film, Monga, to fight for their friends as the characters
did in the movie and even called themselves ‘Gang of Temple’ simulating ‘ Gang
of Princes’ in Monga.
That report proves the discourse that
the televised violence could beget the youth imitation in the previous article.
Although the movie, Monga, intends to emphasize the spirit of the brotherhood
and the friendship through the Taiwan’s gangster culture, the negative values
are possibly produced in the youth minds, such as gang fights, and criminal
behavior for the brotherhood. Due to the immaturity of the judgment during the adolescence,
the youth might distort the right meaning of the film’s violent expression and
imitate it as the heroine behavior for fighting with his friend’s ‘foes’.
Besides, the problem of Monga’s negative effect reflects the importance that
the adults need to discuss and clarify the wrong values in the violent movie
with their children timely. However, the hit movie, Monga is not only the
televised violence which may lead to the potential youth aggressiveness that
some parents worry about. In fact, our TV daily news and programs also have
lots of violent scenes. We cannot just target the single movie on account of
its popularity but ignore other televised violence which is actually exposed to
the audience more frequently.
Yi Shen He (2010). Monga's Effect? Junior High's Gang Fight. Retrieved March 1, 2010, from TVBS: TVBS News Website: http://www.tvbs.com.tw/news/news_list.asp?no=blue20100301120610
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