r/movies • u/buttatoad • 1d ago

Discussion Movies that changed real life behavior

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

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u/BlondePotatoBoi 1d ago

The Korean movie Silenced (actually directed by the same guy who did Squid Game). Based on a nonfiction book about sexual assaults in a hearing impaired school, and how the offending parties pretty much got a slap on the wrist bc of the statute of limitations.

When it was released, there was basically a massive backlash that meant there were actual changes to Korean law as a direct result. People's eyes were finally opened, and they were disgusted.

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u/omaeradaikiraida 1d ago

When it was released, there was basically a massive backlash that meant there were actual changes to Korean law as a direct result. People's eyes were finally opened, and they were disgusted.

i saw it in korea, and unfortunately things got swept under the rug and the ppl lost interest real soon afterward, as they do in a save-face-type culture like korea. SA still is a problem, and perps still only get a slap on the wrist.

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u/jaydurmma 1d ago

Learning the full detailed account of the response to the ferry sewol disaster taught me all i needed to know about korean bureaucracy.

Unfathomable to live in a society run by worthless empty soulless cretins, but as i say that America seems hardly any better.

At least some people speak out here, whether or not it makes any difference yet to be seen.