Alpha House Summary

Plot Summary and Review
According to IMBD, a credited informational movie and television website, “Alpha House is a college comedy film directed by Jacob Cooney and produced by David Rimawi on March 11, 2014”. The basic plot consisted of constant sexual content. Two freshmen joined a fraternity for their hopes for the experience of their lifetime. A sorority and their fraternity, the alphas, being forced into sharing a house due to lack of sorority houses. The fraternity and sorority have conflict, which lead to a fraternity and sorority consistently tried to force each other out. The terrible storyline and unrealistic portrayal of college give the name of college and college movies a bad name.
The Fraternity
From the moment that I pressed play, I was bombarded with sex and nudity. Alpha House’s depiction of a fraternity house was a pig sty filled with college students who throw chaotic parties. To pledge in, they would have to do unreasonable actions to join, such as be kidnapped then run around completely naked. The parties they threw were twistedly clichéd with booze and naked women. The actual students part of the fraternity were pigs themselves. Their only desire was being able to keep

the fraternity, so they can lust for women and have sex filled college experience. They had no regard for actual education and respect for their female peers. For the most part it was a typical college movie fraternity.
I have never been part of a fraternity.

Therefore, I cannot accurately describe the experience as part of a fraternity, but I have read actual testaments of fraternities, and I have heard about life in a fraternity at Sacramento State. From what I have learned, fraternities are a group of students, who pay money, to be part of group to socialize. I have read that many fraternities are dependent on the type of fraternity and school you go to, many fraternities do have parties, not like Alpha House, where members talk with other members and women. There may be drinking, but not all-out arrogance. One benefit I have heard that fraternities do have is the ability to learn to socialize and meet new people. Fraternities are honestly a bond of friends who end up more like

brothers.
The Sorority
Although the movie’s sorority is particularly a lot less perverted of a description of other movie’s representation of sororities, they still give a lot of disrespect to the women. The only upside is Alpha House portrays their leader as a strong and up lifting woman, who wants the sorority to stop being under looked and respected. On the other hand, the women under her are seen to be arrogant and carefree. They do not care about their education or the positive and social aspect of the sorority. In addition, they are only limited to busty and curvy women. Personally, I have not heard anything about sororities, so I cannot give my personal input; I would assume it would be not aligned to the movie’s description.
The Classroom
Even though there only brief instances of the classroom, there was a lot of problems I can see that are inaccurate of a traditional college. My experience at Sacramento State have been good and bad, but nothing close to what is depicted. The longest seen in the classroom was a sorority member giving a presentation on a foregin European city. While many classes I have not had to do presentation in. the classes I have were completely different in various ways. Firstly, some classes do not make you present, like I stated. Secondly, most presentation do not have you look something up and methodically spit out information stolen from the internet. Instead, students give presentations on intricate ideas and the presenters critical analyses and opinions they have on the topic.
Why Do People Make These Stories?
Beside the fact that people would be uninterested in their stories in college, I believe people make up stories for three reasons: status, membership, and defense. Status is one of the obvious aspects to lie to someone. Many people want to be seen as higher, so they make stories up for people to look at them as better. Alternatively, fraternities and colleges in general need people to come to college. If they cannot have people come, they lose money. In order to get people to come, people make up stories or a story about one person to gain attention. Once the fraternity has gained attention and starts growing members, the students create their own story and spreads it.
One major reason I believe they do this for is defense. In some ways, defense ties to status, but it does have its own attributes. Many people criticize going to college. Those who go to college get judged if they are not benefiting in an immediate way, so they make up stories in defense to have a reason to go to college. Once the person who is a critic of college realizes the movies are “true”, they start advocating college in the same way the defender told them. A professor, Professor Kiburi, once told my class a quote. The quote said, “Once a lie is told enough times, it becomes the truth,”
Do Not Believe Everything
Everyone has been told not to believe everything they hear. This goes the same for everything you watch. Kids watch Disney movies and their older siblings criticize them for watching it. At the same time, the older sibling watches movies about college and think that college directly equals partying. People realize that many movies are just imagination, not fact. The same consideration should be taken with college movies like Alpha House, the rules still apply. Unless it is a documentary, it is acting.