Research Assignment About How Movies Affect Our Life

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How Movies Affect Our Life
As the adage goes, ‘all work and no play make life dull and boring’. After a long day putting one’s nose on the grindstone, a man needs to relax with some sort of entertainment. This entertainment may come in form of drinking a cold beverage maybe by tasting the Coke feeling, playing your latest Modern Warfare game on the console, participating in a bowling game at the community hall or even watching your favorite TV program, maybe NCIS or Doctor Who. The Film industry has evolved in a way that people have ready access to their own copies of this form of entertainment. With the development of the movie industry, from the silent movie to the movie with sound, from two-dimensional movies to the three-dimensional ones, the development of the film is a microcosm of the progress of our lives. This development has led into the variation in which we view movies, from just watching for pleasure to indulging all our senses and emotions and being part of it thereby forming an enhanced exhilaration. Movies play a significant part of people's life during their spare time. The film is a masterpiece of art, creative thinking, and inspiration of people's imagination. Movies come from our life, and most importantly, movies serve our life. Movies have a profound effect on human life. So how does film affect our society throughout the time? How can movies change our mind? Films raise awareness our attentions about this world, about minor things around us that we never notice. It gives us an absolutely new understanding of our society.
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Through the ages human beings have tried the best they can to devise ways in which they could enhance the charmingness of life. This has either been done through engagement in sports, dancing, poetry, dramatics and other performed arts or hunting which have been favorite pastimes as recreational activities. The modern man however has gone an extra mile, made a larger leap towards finding something unstraining and at the same time amusing and exhilarating. Advances in science and technology drove man to untended fields to tap from the pleasuring of thoughts in the form of films. Movies tend to portray the day to day life of individuals through an advanced distortion both in a parodical or extra reality. Humans have tended to have an inclination towards virtual reality which would appeal to their subconscious feelings in a dreamy way. Genres such as sci-fi, horror, thriller and fantasy have delved into matters which in reality feel farfetched but through the use of real life performers or actors, people can easily relate to them in their abstract form (Schwartzel,wsj.com).
Human life has gone through a lot of metamorphosis ever since the advent of television and movie media. This changed the traditional way of how people would spend their leisure. Actually, with the bushfire-ish spread of the motion picture mass media all over the world, people’s behavior and thoughts have changed, making film a great part of our livelihood. For instance, in 2009, across the world, there were over 6.8 billion admissions in cinema, which created global income of about $30 billion for box office. This is without including those wh...