Film Review 4

Generation Rx

1. What is the main thesis of the film?

The main thesis of the film “Generation Rx” is that pharmaceutical companies persuade doctors to prescribe medications that in the end can hurt children and also adults. Its drugs like Ritalin which is prescribed for ADHD that cause these horrible symptoms.

2. What were the main arguments in support of the thesis?

The main argument is that these drugs that are prescribed to children SHOULD NOT be. They are not meant for children and in the end they are hurting them and or KILLING the children.

3. How does the thesis of the film relate to the class?

The thesis relates to the class because it has to do with how we socially construct people. If we wouldn’t label a child with ADHD and make that their master status then we wouldn’t have to go through with all this. The doctors are socially constructing these children for the rest of their lives. Making their master status something that is very hard for our society to accept.

4. Which arguments or points did you find most convincing?

I felt that the whole entire film was convincing. I agreed and do believe that the medications that the children were taking was causing the suicides and everything else.

5. Which arguments or points did you find least convincing?

I didn’t really find anything in the film that I didn’t like or that wasn’t convincing.

6. Choose one argument, point or question that most stands out for you. How would you study this point? Briefly design a research study around that point.

I would like to research more of the children that committed suicide. Make sure that there was nothing else in their life that could make them choose that. But I still cannot believe that children that young were committing suicide.