Cinema is an extremely popular source of entertainment world wide. Numerous movies are produced each year and people watch these in large numbers. Cinema impacts our life both positively and negatively.
Positive impact of cinema on students:
- Movies cater to the interest of different types of audience. There are movies that include educative content. Watching such movies widens the knowledge of the students and have positive impact on them.
- Students need to juggle between their studies, extracurricular activities and competitions. Amidst such mad rush and rising competition, they need something for relaxation and watching movies is a good way to relax.
- Students can also bond well with their family and extended family as they plan to go out with them to watch cinema.
Negative impact of cinema on students:
- While cinema may be educative, watching too much of it can prove to be a waste of time for the students. Many students get addicted to the movies and spend their precious time in watching movies rather than studying.
- Certain movies contain inappropriate content such as violence and other A – rated scenes that will have a negative impact on the students.
- Watching too many movies and other video content can weaken the student’s eye sight and also hamper their power to concentrate.
Positive impact of cinema on the society:
- Cinema has major influence on the society. So it can be used as a major tool for creating awareness.
- Films at times can also widen your scope of knowledge according to their genre. A historic film can improve your knowledge in history, a sci-fi movie can touch you with some knowledge of science and good comedy movies has the power to make you laugh, adventure movies can boost you spirit of adventure and motivation.
Negative impact of cinema on the society:
- People at times fail to differentiate between the movie and reality. They get so engrossed in it that they somehow start to believe that the reality is the same as portrayed in the movie which can have undesirable side effects.
- Certain content shown in the movies is not appropriate for some people. It can actually mess up with their mind.
Conclusion:
Whatever a movie may be about, one should not forget that a movie is a portrayal of writers imagination unless it’s a biopic. One should not madly follow them. They should understand and know the difference between real and reel life and try to inculcate only positive aspects of cinema.
P.Mohammed Ajeeba
XI – B