Earlier this week, Feeling something Inundated with memes And social media posts about it Luigi Mangione26 years old Accused of murder Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, I emailed Simone Driesen. She is professor of media and popular culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and is often Smart Insights On ways to connect online comments and real-world issues. Mostly, I wanted to know: What was going on? Why the Internet Mangion A Folk hero?
Driesen’s response was one that many have come up with: People in America are frustrated with the health insurance industry, and posting a response about Thompson’s killing is a way to vent that frustration. Interest in the person behind that death, even before a suspect is caught or named, does not necessarily indicate support for the suspect or action, but “someone trying to take over (or remove) the health care system.” ” is the idea of He wrote. Memes help people understand that feeling.
Still, Drayson added, that doesn’t necessarily explain all the people who followed Mangione when he was identified as the alleged shooter. This, he wrote, “fits somewhat into a social trend or a media entertainment trend where we have this overall romanticized portrayal of criminals” thanks to the recent popularity of true-crime series.
Then, it is not surprising more than a some people Online There are suggestions that the Mangione case could be fodder for the next Ryan Murphy Netflix series such as Dahmer or Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Some even suggest that Dave Franco, who bears a striking resemblance to the suspect, could play Mangione.
Yes, that does Makes sense, but does anyone need it? The fascination surrounding the case, and Mangione as a person, has hit a fever pitch, and while that could make a Hollywood dramatization an intriguing possibility, it’s an idea that Better left alone.
While there are already those who balk at turning the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer or the Menendez brothers into short stories, there’s also the fact that time has passed since America caught up in those cases. Dahmer was Sentenced to life in prison in 1992 in connection with the deaths of 15 people in Wisconsin; He was then extradited to Ohio where he was convicted of another murder. A jury Convicted Lyle and Eric Menendez in the 1996 murders of their parents. The Netflix series about the two came decades after those cases were essentially closed. Bonnie and Clyde came out in 1967; The pair went on their crime spree in the 1930s.
