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According to study conducted by Korean times, it has been revealed that roughly 60 percent of people consider television as a source of entertainments. Also, 10 percent of people prefer to watch movies as a means of amusements. Indeed, movies or television became large parts of people's life. However, those could influence negatively to people's behavior. In my opinion, it makes people violent and indifferent to outer world.
If people are absorbed to movies or television, they might act or think aggressively. This is because themes of movies or television are based on murders, sexual harassments or wars. One of popular T.V programs C.S.I or a movie named Mission Impossible could fit into that category. When people are exposed to those, they might be violent. For example, Korean people were shocked by a serial killer Kang Hou-soon. Allegedly, he was accused on account of 23 murders or more. However, the more shocking fact was that these murders were due to television programs. He mentioned that he used to watch movies about murders when he was young. He was confused whether the movies were ture. As a result, since he concentrated on the movies too much, he actually conducted murders, forgetting his actions were illegal and morally wrong. Therefore, I believe movies or television makes people aggressive.
Moreover, it leads people to be indifferent to social or political issues. This could be especially seen in television programs. People could not be serious when they watch television programs which are usually based on entertainments. To be more specific, when people watch news about corruption of policymakers, they first are furious of irresponsible actions of policymakers. However, after that news, they watch entertaining programs or advertisements, making them laugh or focus on the programs. Then, the news in terms of corruption fades away from their minds. This is the reason why television is called as a 'stupid box'. Hence, people might be unconcern of political or social issues due to television or movies.
In conclusion, I believe television or movies have negative influence on people. Those not only lead people to be violent, but they also become indifferent to outer world. As a matter of fact, people are aware of the problems, but they prefer to watch television and movies. |