Cady Heron In The Film 'Mean Girls' By Lindsay Lohan

In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron who is played by Lindsay Lohan is one of the main characters in the movie. In the selected scene we see Cady is sitting with the her friend and the popular girls at the school called the plastics. The plastics have a set number of rules that none of them can break, such as what they can and can't wear. Her friend happened to break one of these rules, which resulted in the other girls at the table to get mad and tell her she has to leave. Cady is not able to really say much about her opinion because she knows whatever she says the girls won't like, so she remains silent as they tell her friend to leave the table.
The Spiral of Silence Theory suggests that the more an individual feels their opinion is different
from the majority opinion, the more likely they are willing to voice their thoughts in the public discourse. A lot of people remain silent when they feel that their opinion or views on a certain subject is in opposition to the views of others, and that most people tend to gravitate to the mass opinion view.
This scene is a good example of the Spiral of Silence Theory. Cady decides to not say anything about her friend being removed from the table because she still wants to be apart of the group. You can see how her opinion differs from the other girls based on her expression and face, but since the other girls in the group have a certain opinion, she can't go against it because she knows they will remove her from the table as well.