▶ Your Answer :through active international trades and use of internets, it became easier to watch movies from different countries. Each movies are written and made by local people and taken in home countries. Therefore it is impossible to not to contain informations about the environment and cultural values. Moives tell about the home contry and help to foreigners be able to experience indirectly about the country.
As it mentioned above, movies are taken place in somewhere in the country. It tells how is weather in that country, is it tropical or having all four seasons? Which kinds of people are living in there, asians, africans, eropeans? Those informtions can be determined directly from the movies.
However cultural values, and usual relationships, religion, or gender role in one country is shown indirectly or can be found in careful obervations. If you see the series of Idian movies, you will see a lot of dancing and musics about gods or others. Indians believe that through dancing they can show love for their gods and the religion is very important of their life. And some arab film, females are covering their faces and obedient to males, therefore watchers can figure countries in arab are male-based society.
futuristic SF movies and Historical film might show false and fantasy, but they still shows basic styles that local people like and their views of world. Also if awknoledged audience watch those movies, then they will be able to figure what local people's dream, what they want to emphasize or hide from their history through the movies.
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