"Doing the Right Thing" - An Analysis of the movie Insider's influence on our society in response to Sydney Polack's Article "The Way We Are."

It is not easy to do the right thing. Doing the right thing often involves compromising one's self-interest for others who might not appreciate his/her sacrifice. However, such an action is a benevolent virtue that our society tries to encourage by honoring it and making it memorable to everyone. In addition to a plethora of newspaper and magazine companies, our movie industry is also zealous about presenting stories with such a theme. Many commendable …

…are already searching for new things in theaters. Perhaps, like films that present sex today, movies that stress inner human qualities like The Insider will become popular decades later. Work Cited: Pollack, Sydney. "The Way We Are." Common Culture. Ed. Michael Petracca, and Madeleine Sorapure. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 1995. 520-530. Cunneen, Jeseph. "Power and Faith." National Catholic Reporter 36.6 (1999): 17. Meisel, Daniel. "Blowing the Whistle." The Lancet 356.9326 (2000):1201 Johnson, Brian. "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Maclean's Nov 8 1999: 86.