I was watching tv the other day and a commercial came on. I usually don’t watch commercials because I can just fast forward through them, but this one caught my attention. A pretty young woman was in a room and this blissful and light music started playing. All of these shiny and shimmery lights were dancing around the screen and she followed them up some stairs and into a bedroom. It gave off a very happy and romantic vibe, and was very reminiscent of a perfume commercial. (which I think was their goal) She found her self faced with a big bottle of what looked like perfume until it spun around and presented her with the words “Cervical Cancer”. And then a woman’s voice started talking and said “Maybe it’s unfair to get your attention this way, but nothing’s fair about cervical cancer….” And then she went on and spat some facts about it.
To me, this commercial was in very bad taste. Cancer isn’t something you can make light of. It is a serious issue and to get people’s attention about it like that isn’t right. I thought it was kind of disturbing but I guess they got the point across.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HumoHUC8yQ
April 1, 2010 at 7:05 am |
I’ve seen this commercial and it is a bit weird and scary. As we learned in class…I think they were trying to use fear to make women more aware of cervical cancer. I agree with you…it is not the best commercial to watch.