The Importance Of Movies: How Movies Changed Our Lives

HOW HAVE MOVIES CHANGED OUR LIVES

Human being is an animal of communication. We talk, we see, we hear, we smell and we touch/ feel the others. We are creatures who enjoy entertainment. There is a universal aspect to entertainment which appeals to all the humanity. There is a sense of familiarity which every one of us can feel identified with. And so, just as we are entertained, we forget ourselves. Sometimes, that's exactly what we need.

Movie is one of the most powerful communication tools we have developed so far. Movies had started as a moving picture. And now it is not just an entertainment, but it is a centre of culture. It is an expression of art. It is a story.

We all agree movies allow us to escape—and there’s value in that—but it’s

Movies have an impact that stays with us for the rest of our lives. Movies have become an integral part of our lives, be it for entertainment, business or educational purpose. There are movies that we watch and forget, then are movies that stay with us for life.

Be it “picture abhi baki hai mere dost”(the movie is yet to end) which inspires millions of Indians to keep going because “if it’s not happy, it’s not the end”. Movies are not just a form of entertainment anymore. It has become a lifestyle, an inspiration a mode of learning for millions of teenagers out there who get influenced by these

When you innovate something, and it works, it has a direct affect on economics around the world. – meaning that, if I created a new kind of 3D like Cameron has – or if 2D to 3D conversion takes off – and exhibitors around the world put in screens because people want to see it? that creates real economic growth. Movies, in the USA, are the number one exported product! That’s an amazing thing, and creates economics here and around the world! So if we look at the idea of technology and what technology does for the movies? technology allows movies to take stories to places where they couldn’t have gone before, and that technology helps escapism- which is why, ultimately, you go to the movies.

1. Movies create a powerful sense of emotion and engagement. They can\ communicate concepts, ideas and stories. They allow us to be cognitively transported to a different time or a place, and experience life through different eyes- gaining new perspectives, inspiration and understanding. “…fiction becomes this sort of cultural bank balance that we can draw from. We can momentarily be a young woman, an old woman, a black person, an Asian person, a Chinese person, and look at the world and argue a position that is not our own for a while — inhabit a position that is not our