Many people of the world are crazy about movies. They usually go to a theater to enjoy latest movies with friends, family, and lovers. Even some youngsters have a dream of becoming a famous movie director in the future. There are three reasons why films are so popular, and those are that movies mainly convey common interests, affordable entertainment, and are easy to enjoy.
More than anything else, the contents of movies are related to common interests of people. Those topics can be enjoyable regardless of race, nation, and age. This generality of the movie is the one secret of its great success. For example, there are many genres of cinema such as romance, war, friendship, and horror, all of which are the part of our life. When I watched a movie 'SAW' last year, I felt very scared with the plot and sound effects. Even though there were no subtitles in it, I could understand whole process of the film, because its main purpose was to deliver scary feelings to people, which is very common in life. Judging from my personal experience, movies are popular because of its conveyance of common interests to people.
Next, a cinema is one of the greatest entertainments for people to enjoy with cheap price. Mostly, the price of tickets are just around five dollars each, and thus watching movies in theaters are affordable even for those who are not rich. Throughout history, there was the first type of affordable movie theater, called "nickelodeon." This was named like this because the price of entering fee was just only five cents. That enabled lower class people to enjoy a variety of movies without financial burden, and that movie theater has been continuously evolved to its modern form of a movie theater we frequently go to. This historical and today's facts clearly show that movies are pretty cheap to enjoy, which makes them still popular among people.
Finally, movies are very easy to understand and appreciate. They do not require complicated knowledge, such as mathematics, physics, and algebra. For this reason, people can appreciate them in the comfort of their homes and theaters, just looking at the screen and listening to the sound. For instance, two months ago, I went to the nearest movie theater with my friends in order to see the recent film, "Transformer." While watching it, I was overwhelmed by the cutting edge computer graphics and real sound effects. Because it did not require me to think seriously about the plot and relationships between characters, I could enjoy the movie to the fullest. This example obviously strengthens my point that movie is very famous for its easiness to appreciate.
To sum up, I firmly believe that there are critical reasons for the popularity of movies. These include common interests of people, cheap amusement, and easiness they provide with movie goers. All in all, movies will surely be appreciated widely throughout the world because of their unique traits I mentioned above.
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