The story is divided into three positions from beginning to end, one is humans, who advocates the elimination of all mutants; one is Dr. X, who advocates that humans and mutants can live in harmony; the other is Magneto, who believes that the struggle between humans and mutants is Irreconcilable, advocates the eradication of mankind.
Then you can compare the promotion strategies of the two people. In the second part, Dr. X said to the President of the United States: "Mr President, this is not a threat. This is an oppotunity. There are force in this world, both mutant and human alike, who believe a war is coming .You will see from those files that some have already tried to start one. And there have been casualities,losses on both sides.Mr President,what you are about to tell the world is true.This is a moment.A moment to repeat the mistake of the past, or to work together for a better future." In such a passage, Dr. X analyzed the loss of the status quo, and made suggestions for the president's actions, which are well-founded and a typical way of appealing to rational propaganda. .
This corresponds to what Magneto said to the mutants in the third installment. In that passage, he was mainly emphasizing how unfair human beings are to them, so they must be brave enough to resist and teach them a lesson. This is a typical way of appealing to perceptual propaganda, and the propaganda strategies of the two are different.
Let's look at the human side. According to the premise of the film, mutation is an important process of human evolution, so it is normal for mutants to appear (when human beings, this obviously violates the biological principle of less benefit and more harm). It is not difficult to see that humans have a repulsive attitude towards mutants from the very beginning, thinking that they are monsters and are abnormal. In the second part, Iceman's mother also said to her children: "Have you ever tried not to be a mutant". The little naughty told him that he should see his skills, but in the end, it was his family who called the police. In fact, many humans have not had a fair understanding of mutants in the first place. They just make up the majority themselves, so it is unreasonable to think that the remaining few are not of the same kind. Their views are not necessarily right, just like Magneto said at the end of the "First Station" prequel "mutant and proud". Such a "naturally established" view of human beings is just - the tyranny of the majority!
But look back at the ending. A large part of Magneto followed, and many mutants finally took the initiative to receive treatment. Compared with the large number of people in the first two Dr. X schools, there were very few people left to fight in the end. We can analyze the reason here: when a considerable number of people choose to receive treatment, a group pressure is formed, that is, the pressure of the majority opinion in the group on the individual opinion or minority opinion of the members. In the face of group pressure, individuals and minority opinions generally obey the majority opinion, which is a basic principle of group activities. The so-called "convergence psychology" refers to the psychology of individuals wishing to be consistent with the majority opinion in the group and to avoid being punished by the group due to isolation. However, obedience to the majority opinion is not always made based on rational judgment. On many occasions, group pressure will also bring about wrong judgments and form blind obedience to the majority opinion. The final result is obvious!~~
From another angle, some of Dr. X's followers began to want to stand up and fight with him, but the public opinion on Magneto and humans was too strong, and some people worried that their position would not be strong 's supporters turned to silence, and their silence weakened the power of Dr. X's public opinion, which caused more people to remain silent under the psychology of convergence, thus forming a cycle - a spiral of silence!
In the end, the movie will always have a happy ending, and someone will always step up to save the situation. There are still loyal warriors to fight. Remember the touching eulogy of the Storm woman at Dr. X's funeral? Because Dr. X's earnest teachings have a certain tendency, he has cultivated them very well. This influence is not short-term, but a long-term, imperceptible, "cultivation" process, which is unconsciously Constraining people's view of reality, this research is called "cultivation analysis"! !
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