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Perhaps it can be unsafe to watch movies in some cases. For instance, the women on screen are often ideals and it sometimes leads to ordinary women doing dangerous things in attempts to become those ideals. And then there are the various uses of movies as propaganda and tools of manipulation. But, as the article mentions, movies have also been forces of good. They can bring awareness to the suffering in the world and make viewers want to take action against it. Also, more personally, they can just make us feel better after a bad day. --Taylor Brann | Perhaps it can be unsafe to watch movies in some cases. For instance, the women on screen are often ideals and it sometimes leads to ordinary women doing dangerous things in attempts to become those ideals. And then there are the various uses of movies as propaganda and tools of manipulation. But, as the article mentions, movies have also been forces of good. They can bring awareness to the suffering in the world and make viewers want to take action against it. Also, more personally, they can just make us feel better after a bad day. --Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | ==Juliann Boyles== | ||
| + | I agree with Taylor in that film can be a very effective method of propaganda. War film propaganda from the 1940s is a great example of that. However, human beings are not mindless and incapable of independent thought. Even though we may see an example of behavior on the silver screen, and some lost souls choose to follow their idol to the extreme, that does not make movies dangerous. Movies can have a powerful impact on their audience. I am sure we can all remember certain films that may have changed the way we think about certain things forever, of course I can say the same thing about certain books. Whether a movie was created for pure entertainment, social commentary, or artistic expression, movies have become an important part of American culture. Even in the case of fantastical docudramas, erring on the side of Disney with historical revision, there is still value to its study. Historical revision, after all, is not limited only to film. | ||
==Ashley Wilkins== | ==Ashley Wilkins== | ||
