[Topic] MOVIES AND TELEVISION HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECTS THAN POSITIVE EFFECTS ON YOUNG PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR |
Many people have been debating the pros and the cons of the statement that movies and television have negative effect to behaviors of young people. From my personal point of view, I strongly agree with the idea of movies and television can wield detrimental influence on youngsters. Young people are blindly imitate what they have seen the movies and television not only that but movie and television often contain some aggressive and exotic contents to attract more viewers. To begin with, young people are likely to follow what they have seen in the movies and television. Some people might assert that movies and television can be a medium of spreading trend and fashion. However, young people often blindly follow the characters’ behavior and viewpoint without any critical thinking. Thus, it might have devastating effects on the behaviors of younger generation. To illustrate, take a case of children suicide in America as an example. Several years ago, the high school students of New-York state had been tried to imitate the robbing market what they had seen in the movie called ‘Die Hard’. Needless to say, their attempt tuned out to be failed and eventually all of them got arrested. Surprisingly, what they told in front of the police officers was they just imitated the scene of the movie ‘Die Hard’. If they had not seen the movie of robbery, they would not have committed that serious mistake. Thus, we have been witnessed that how movies and television affect the youngsters by agitate them to follow the way the characters demonstrated. Furthermore, the contents of movies and television are usually quite aggressive and exotic to allure the more viewers. Nowadays, there are a number of educational broadcastings which can help young people to enhance their academic capabilities. Movies and television, however, frequently provide extremely aggressive story and scenes in order to induce the people. Therefore, movies and television are able to wield negative influence to the young people who are mentally unstable. According to a survey recently released by the Korean National Research Center, more than two thirds of the surveyed adolescents responded that they have experienced some violent behaviors after they have watched the television programs and movies. They also mentioned that since they preferred violent and sexual contents more of them are being changed in that ways. Thus, those of aggressive and exotic movies and television programs can be a harmful effect on the development of the young people. In this context, there is no wonder that movies and television have more negative influences than positive one. In brief, movies and television need to be considered negatively in terms of promoting youngsters’ safety and development. Young people are blindly follow what they have seen the movies and television as well as those medias often offer some violent and sexual contents to allure more viewers. In general, I wholeheartedly believe the very first thing we should do is admitting the importance of the detrimental effects of movies and television media as the curb of our younger generation. |