Wealth And Prosperity In The Film The Bling Ring

In this generation many believe to look up to the wealthy and try to live up to their standards of luxury. Americans across the country are obsessed with materialistic success.
The media focuses on wealthy people who have expensive possessions. It’s all about
“ What’s new and trendy?” The media portrays that you must have high priced clothing, nice jewelry, expensive new cars, and enormous mansions to be successful. Setting these high expectations only lead juveniles to wanting the same expensive things these people and celebrities have. Juveniles will start stealing in order to fulfill their materialistic dreams that the media leads them on should be like. The media see’s fame and fortune as a major foundation of being successful.
In the movie, “The Bling Ring”, teens were obsessed with new trendy materials.
They started stealing other people’s possessions by opening parked cars on the street. After using the stolen money from the automobiles, it wasn’t enough for them.
They wanted more. Rebecca and Marc wanted and needed to look and feel like a celebrity. The media only made the Bling Ring act out more. Rebecca and Marc started going to houses to steal. They went to more than three celebrities houses to steal their possessions.
Not only was it just them two, but also three other girls who thought they were cool enough to brake into Paris Hiltons crib. They wanted to be flashy and dress fashionable just like
Marc and Rebecca. They weren’t broke to begin with. They were raised in good homes and family. The media just brained washed their minds to focus on materialistic success.
Their behavior didn’t stop there either. They started smoking and drinking as well. Their delinquent behavior continued until the police from surveillance videos and anonymous tips helped captured them. When they were confessing, Marc blames Rebecca as the main one who wanted to go along with the home burglaries. She was to into her obsession to look