PCU

In class to coincide with our readings on logical fallacies we watched the movie PCU. One logical fallacy that I think can easily be found in the movie is “Ad Hominem”; the idea that there is an attack on the character of a person rather than their opinions or arguments. It’s when people focus only on one aspect of a certain person or group looking at them from only one view point and basically just highlighting back to the world all the negative things. Being a college freshman in today’s world I don’t feel as though this movie in any way truly depicted how college life really is. I honestly feel this movie and movies like it take 30 percent of what goes on in college and applies it as the face of the term college life in attempts to somehow persuade people to go to college. You don’t walk into dorms and see people high off of drugs, there aren’t happy hippie people singing on the lawns. In fact at Georgia State we obviously have no lawns. Yes there are people who do some of the things shown in this movie like drink, and go out to parties, and are firm activists. But it is not at all to the extreme as shown in the movie PCU. They left out the other 70 percent of college life which includes going to class, doing homework, studying, sitting around with friends and having in depth discussions about life, or just students simply hanging out and interacting without the drugs or alcohol. Even when they showed the feministic women in the movie they portrayed them as women who just hate men when in fact they may simply be a group of women who are out to support women. Seeking to uplift women and give them as much credit and opportunity as men receive in this world. Therefore using an example of Ad hominem, attacking a persons character rather than their opinions or arguments.