Opinions might be divided whether you prefer the entertaing aspects of the movies or the educational and thought-provoking side of them. Personally, I love to watch the movies that presents thought-provoking messages because of three reasons. First, one of its function is to awake people's thought. Second, there are plenty of people who expect the moives to influence them.
First of all, one of its function is to awake people's thoughts. The movie directors usually have the reason why they make the films. It means they have certain messages to deliver to the viewers of the movie they made. People often become sentient after they saw some movies and they apply its messages to their lives or other's lives. For instance, some reverends in the church often quote some lines or the plots in a certain film when they preach to the congregation on Sunday. They may combine the messages of the films they saw with the story of bible or words of God in order to have congregation understand his/her point better. Moreover, the teachers and professors also utilize thought-provoking ideas from the film they saw to give their students assignments or to give them the topics to dicuss. As we can see in the daily life, the ideas or messages that are contained in the film play important roles in the human society.
On the top of that, there are plenty of people who wanted to be influenced by the movies and this reason attract them to the cinema. People often feel they need to have catharsis or blow off steam and they pay a visit to the cinema quite often to achieve such purposes. Some people might get catharsis or blow off their steam by watching the movies that soley focus on the entertainment and amusement of people. It seems that people are satisfied with such funny or hilarious movies when they watch it, however, according to the research conducted by the Union of Korean Actors and Actress(UKAA) tell us different statistics. People who watched such entertaining movies felt 23% satisfaction and those who watched the message carrying films felt more than 60% of satisfaction. It means that people who watched the influential film was more satisfied than those who watched the films that were made for fun.
To sum up, I do not want to degrade the value of the entertaining movies. They are also valuable because people can blow their stress by watching such movies. However, It is likely that people are more favorable to the movies that carries the thought-provoking messages. |