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Monga’s Effect? The Problem of School Bullying is only because of 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 sill distort the right meaning of the film’s violent expression and imitate it as the heroine behavior for fighting with his friend’s ‘foes’. Thus, the problem of Monga’s negative effect evokes the dispute whether we should limit the violent movies like Monga to broadcast to the children lest the possibility of school bullying.
    However, is the negative effect of the youth imitation all the movie’s fault? We cannot totally blame it on Monga. Some school bullying news or other violent-related ones are often linked to Monga’s effect by the reporters after Monga becomes a hit movie and gains high popularity; but do those news are related to Monga truly? Are those reports possibly the televised news plot that the reports exploit Monga’s popularity for grabbing the viewer’s more attention on that news? So do we not be influenced by the reports of the news and have responsibility of that? All in all, the problem of school bullying is not only mainly from the violent movie but also from Taiwan’s televised news; and perhaps, we viewers are also involved in it.

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