Media Log # 1

Commercial of McDonalds back in 2009

Humans are the most undeniably complex creations of God. Their minds are uncontrollable, able to conjure the most unorthodox and the most undeniably unbelievable ideas in a short span of time. Their minds are also unpredictable, able to think and change their decisions in a matter of seconds. What makes humans more complicated, is their emotions. What makes them impressively different from other creations of God, is that they have the most complicated emotional tract. The most important emotion that humans hold, is none other than love.

Love, is something that's extremely hard to define. There are a lot of ways to define love. It could be defined through words, actions, thoughts or even just things. But what's hard about love, is that it doesn't come so simple. What I'm talking about is intimate love. It's not something you can easily find or stumble upon. Love has become so modernized, tainted that people misunderstand love to be something that's just a fling. That's the greatest mistake anyone could ever make, and I believe that's what makes love now fake. People believe it to be something that's just temporary, that it doesn't last anymore. This commercial, however, proved that otherwise.

In the start, this commercial showed two children just playing around and holding hands. The next scene shows them to be grown up, the girl still pulling the hand of the boy. The girl then introduces the boy to her husband, and it crushes the boy. However, he comes to understand that though they aren't together, he still considered the girl to be his first love. That alone was enough for him. It shows that though he didn't get the girl, he chose to be happy for her knowing she was still the first girl that he fell in love with.

Now, the stereotype in this commercial was obvious. One, just because they were friends since they were young doesn't necessarily mean that one of them will develop feelings for the other. It doesn't always work like that. Two, a common cliché. Although they don't fall in love with each other, one falls in love with another person. The girl got married with this other man, it's typical in any film. However, in reality that doesn't always happen. What's unique about this commercial was its message to the viewers; not everything we start ends the way that we want it to end.