Movies Influences Teens Behavior

Culture, defined as the art and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. This can be anything from human’s paintings to their photography. Or, it could be their films. The endless movies that come out year after year, some even simple remakes of ones made years ago. But, even if they are simply remakes, we pay to view almost every last one of them. Movies impact everyone. And doing so impacts, what was defined prior, culture. In society today, the movies bombards teens with images and trends. Movies show popular culture; what the trends are, what people should be wearing, what they should be listening to, how they should act, and what they should look like. Pop culture, in turn, defines what one should

The study, initially published online July 18, 2012, recruited more than 1,200 participants who were from 12 to 14 years old and asked them to report which movies they had seen from several different collections of 50 that were randomly selected.(Roach) After additional questions to determine key factors, and six years of waiting, the results showed what all authors agree on at this point. It “strongly suggested that parents need to restrict their children from seeing sexual content in movies at young ages”.(Roach) Roach goes on to say that when parents allow their kids to view sexually explicit films, real lives are impacted.(Roach) Parents may take it for granted but their kid’s future positive behavior is at stake. But, now that the Roach has been proven correct by the study, he can attempt to fix the problem. Roach believes that parents should watch the films with their teens, and pose questions to make them really think about what they are viewing.(Roach) This being the opposite of L’Engle, who believes media needs to influence the change in movies teens view. Roach then goes as far as telling parents to make sure that they are sorting “fact and fiction” for the teens as the view special effects.(Roach) And, being religious and writing this article for Baptist Press, also says that we need to replace current movie types with ones based on The Bible.(Roach) “What teenagers most need is a new set of 'movies'.(Roach) The Bible is the 'novel'.(Roach) Teenagers need to read and study the book, absolutely.(Roach) But they also need to see the 'movie' based on the book".(Roach) But, while no author agrees or disagrees with Roach’s special effect or “bible movie” idea, seldom do they mention anything close. Someone who does agree that parents should be in the middle of teen’s movie interaction is Carol