Entertainment! Entertainment! Entertainment! We all very much know movies are the biggest part of the entertainment industry and I don’t think there are many people who are not addicted to them.Movies are mystical! Unlike the soap operas that are never ending, movies are sold in short packages, a whole story unfolds within the time span of 2 hours, which keeps the viewers gripped to their seats making you lose yourself in the emotions shown by the characters and feeling something for them.Not all the movies have the same impact on us,this may be because every story is treated differently.
But irrespective of good or bad movies, they do leave some impression on our minds.
Movies have always caught the people’s attention for several reasons, one: we being are awe struck by the depiction of the magnum opus and the other prime reason being that we connect some part of our personality to either one of the characters in the movie or the movie as a whole. To be precise we end up watching movies where we can associate our characteristic traits and mood to a specific genre of the movie. Movies may not always define a person but I think they can partially convey the personality we have based on what kind of cinema we like to watch. Likewise, movies also have some kind of effect on our moods and judgments.
The process of choosing a movie is another story altogether, especially for people who are indecisive and love to watch different genres the selection becomes more difficult. Only then, we decide a movie depending on our mood and inclination we have towards a specific genre at the time of viewing. Long before our movie databases started showing hundreds of new genres, I can associate to the movie classification only by the ancient categories: Action, Romance, Comedy, Drama, Thriller and Fiction.
As they say every movie has its own set of audience, but this does not necessarily mean there is no overlapping. As I said before, we may be more drawn to a particular kind of cinema but it does not stop us from watching variety of movies depending on our likes (characteristic traits). People who have more proclivities for adventure, aggressiveness, heroic demeanor love watching all these heart thumping action sequences, panic-stricken chases, violence and high voltage drama. For people who are high on emotions, passion, compassion and who believe love to be essential part of life have liking for romance. Audience who love to have happy effect on them, want to watch lighthearted stories with the satirical humor, wittiness and no serious drama. Drama is a universal genre, for people who like a mix of different genres with a balance of all emotions are more likely to watch this. People who have penchant for thrillers are more likely to be anxious, uncertain and excited. Most of us since childhood, dream of an imaginary world that we love to live in and fiction movies gives this section of people a best chance to re-live in their mythical storybook world.
Movies also affect our personality and cognitive mind with impact on moods, opinions and judgments, so much so that when we come out of a theater watching a comedy movie; it predominantly leaves a happy and positive effect where as horror/thriller movie leaves a psychological disturbance among many people. The same goes with an action/violent movie that have hostile and vicious impression lingering on a person’s mind.
Cinema in some way helps us to reinvent ourselves. It helps to fulfill our fantasies or wildest things that we do not even dare to do in the reality by living through an actor’s perspective. Cinema is also the strongest form of social media that directly/indirectly makes us understand the loopholes in the society and ourselves as well. Though the effect movies may be transient, it does impinge on our conscious mind heedless of demographic background of the audience and this phenomenon is robust. For this reason be it short films (some of which had very good subject line in recent times) or movies should try to give a message to people creating a good vibe helping us develop a better society.
