Nowadays, movies have become very popular in our life. In Vietnam, there is at least one new film hitting cinemas every month, while television stations often play old films for free. These are reasons of movies’ popularity.
First, we can learn a lot of things from movies, for example, language, culture, history, etc. In my old English class, my teacher likes to play English movies as one of her teaching material. All of our classmates like this way and think it is interesting and effective to learn foreign language. Besides, apart from learning language, we also lively learn English culture that is very different from ours. Movie is also a good history teacher. The most interesting historical movies I have ever watched are Life is beautiful, Titanic, Schinder’s list, Gone with the wind, Pearl Harbor, etc. They all give me a lot of historical knowledge and more thorough understanding of the golden pages of World history.
Second, watching movie can release pressure. Most of us live in a modern and high-tech age. Comparing with my grandma’s age, it provides us a more comfortable, effective, and rich life. However, it gives us a lot of pressure as well. Nearly every day, we face pressure from our job, family, colleagues, etc. Pressure makes us easily nervous and have negative mood. Movie provides us an easy and economic way to release our pressure. Movie can take us away from reality and let us forget the trouble around us temporally.
Thirdly, movies also warn us about urgent problem that we face today. They warn us about current problems of the earth and say to us that we have to solve them. For example, I am really impressed with the film Avatar. When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. This film warns us to protect the environment of our planet. We must not damage our ecosystem because of some money because the result will be the destruction of our planet, our life and our ecosystem.
Finally, watching movie has become a symbol of showing romance between people, especially for young couples. In Macao, cinemas are often full in weekends, for many people like to go to cinema as one of their weekend program. Among them, most are young couples. Boys like to invite girls to cinema as an excuse to date them. Cinemas are therefore regarded romantic places for showing love.
In all, from the reason above, we know that movie is such a thing that makes almost everyone likes it. There is no doubt that movies have become popular and inevitable to our life.
