How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use specific reasons and specific examples to support your answer. |
Today, movies and broadcast programs in television are getting more advanced. Almost nobody dislikes them. People gain information and entertainment through watching them regularly. One of the recent popular dramas in TV is ‘Heroes’. It is a science fiction drama where a number of people who have a type of supernatural power each trying to do something with the troublesome world. Many of my friends are into it very much. It sounds very beneficial but television was one time called “stupid box” because it makes people dumb; making people still in front of the “box” for a long time. Moreover, there are a lot of good and bad influences movies and television give to people’s behavior. One of the influences movies and broadcast programs in TV is people’s imitation of celebrities. People follow their fashion, hair styles and their behaviors because they truly believe that it is a brand new trend. The viewers admire their characteristics in the TV but sometimes it’s too much. There are some fans who follow every single thing about a star. There are also admirers who stalk their favorite celebrities making them outrageous and stressful which is a serious psychological problem. It is because people misunderstand that they are real when they are acting only. Apart from that, people become informative easily and emotional, deeply impressed by a certain type of programs in the TV. For instance, I usually watch news on CNN and BBC channels and documentaries in National Geography and Discovery channels. They are really beneficial and helpful. It is an advantage that people get information visually and vocally in an easy way. Besides, movies and TV have a great power to move people’s heart, change their minds by impressive and instructive. For example, if viewers watch a program about Africans who suffer famine, they may try to find ways to help those poor people. Whether movies and television give good effects or bad effects, it is true that they have a huge power to influence people’s behavior. Anyways it is human being who invented them. Therefore, we must figure out how to maximize the right and advantageous effects and minimize the harmful and bad effects of them to ourselves. |