Nowadays, many people spend their times watching movies in their spare times. It seems to have a purpose of entertaining rather than a educational one. Then, is a movie really simple past-time stuff to each movie goers? I strongly disagree with that opinion. As you come up close observation, you can easily notice that each of us is influenced by movies in various way
Above all, through a film, each viewer can see other faces of life. In a movie, There are lots of characters in a different social staus and they make stories which seem to happen in a real life. Seeing those characters coping with their situations, we have an experience to be other people. Nothing can better make a person a person to experience other lives as if he were like an another man than movies. In this context, if you watch a number of movies, you would get much indirect experience lying on your sofa.
In addition, movies can change people's believes. We often see that a piece of movie attracts attention of a whole world. Reading a message from the movie, people who watch that sometimes change their opinions about a certain issue. For example, there are lot of natural disastrous movies in America. Not only those movies show us many spectaclular scenes, but warn us storngly that we should protect our earth unless we want to meet such terrible disastors. Nothing is more effective than movies to draw people's attention to the environmental issue.
In this regard, a movie is very important means to affect to humans consdering its impact on each person and a whole society. It satisfy our desire of living other lives and make us reconsider about a certain issue. For those reasons, I think that movies should not be underestimated.
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