How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Many reclusive people refuse to even leave the house, so that is one difference in how a recluse is represented in my media production, as opposed to real life.
Reclusive people do not appear often in films, but one example is Clear Rivers from Final Destination 2 (played by Ali Larter)
Clear is the only character to appear in more than one Final Destination film, and the reason she became reclusive was due to the events of the first film, where all her friends were killed in the order they should have been in a crash, with Clear being the only survivor.
She hides herself away so nothing can happen to her (even requesting sharp objects be left outside the room), taking safety in the form of a padded cell in a mental health hospital.
While the main character in my production does venture out at times, one major difference is that nothing bad has previously happened to them and is like that due to their own insecurities, rather than a horrible event previously happening. The opening eludes to the events that cause them to become even more reclusive, and had this been a full film, they would likely have become very similar to Clear Rivers in Final Destination 2.


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