How much do you think movies have influence on people?

Question

did movies influence you by any means, made you like or hate something, some race, or some country and after sometime you discovered you were wrong.

Answer 1

movies definitely change my view on different types of people, views as well as places. The magic of a movie is that it can make you love or hate just about anything...it is a persuasive art form.

personally, movies really motivate me to be a peaceful person, I know war in movies is sometimes glamorized or what not, but it still makes me sick to my stomach thinking that this hate still lives in our world, not only in the past but it is part of our lifestyle today.  

Answer 2

it's like when you read a book and got influenced by its characters, facts or even ideas but with more effective means (visual).

Each individual's degree of getting influenced by watching a movie depends on many things, most importantly how well he is aware of the subject (if political or historical views are introduced in the film).

but at the end it's like a flash of ideas and it's each one's capability and willingness to take interest and think further about it.

i personally got influenced by good movies of course but not to the extent you are describing in your details as i try to put everything in its perspective..would you tell me about your experience?

Answer 3

satan's work influence every one if Adam(pbuh) influenced by satan why

the sons and daughters of Adam are not influenced by satan but it is on your own resposbility to save self by satan with the help of Allah

Answer 4

Actually yes it does. I love watching movies so much and I hate it when I see a bad one. Good movies are made to affect people and to leave a certain message to them, that's when it's a good and decent movie.

I never used to get affected by movies when I was younger cause simply I thoughts it's all acting and it's not true, but when I got older I understood that movies are delivering something I might not see in my life. I mean life of other people. I.e. last movies I saw was Ahmed Helmy's movie, it was great actually and it affected me so much that I cried and I usually don't cry in movies. But think! when a movie makes you cry that means it moved you emotionally and affected you.

Some movies make you see a truth that might be invisible to you, like 'atfal el shaware3' and such things. Even cartoons! It's funny but I never forget two cartoons affected me greatly when I was a kid, hehehehe … 'Zena w Na77ol' & 'Bashar" there were informative, cute and funny.

Answer 5

Yes it happens. But not in a extreme negative way as you describe. not against a whole race, or a whole country. Patriotic movies specially the American movies are very biased against its enemies (as the Vietnamese, or the Russian, or Arabs) and just profile them into characters of savages who are hunger for blood. they picture themselves as superiors to others.

They recently started to picture a more moderate view in movies dealing with wars and political conflicts. However there is still a big Jewish influence in these movies when any Jewish character is involved.

Movies of this kind were: "the Crash", "Babel" and "Munich"

on the social drama level yes it affects me. When you watch a love story you get affected and sometimes changes your view of what love is.

in Arabic movies i always liked "Ed7ak el soura tetla3 7elwa" for Ahmed Zaki, Karim AbdAziz, and Mona Zaki. this story really touched me.

for American movies i liked "Changing Lanes" by Ben Affleck and Samuel Jackson, as we normally tend to do the good things, however we sometimes get in conflict and harm others, although we don't want that inside our selves.

i also liked "Beautiful Mind" and "Senderela Man" both by Russell Crow, as it tells you that there is still always hope in your life to seek no matter how much you are suffering right now.

Also movies that are so sad dramatically to the level you loose sympathy with its characters still have affects too. like "Unfaithful" and "American Beauty"

some comedy movies have remarkable effects too like "Just Married", "meet the parents"

It is noteworthy to remember that movie makers are aware for the influence of their movies, however they use it in commercial way to advertise certain image and certain way of life in order to promote certain consuming habits for useless tings like I Pod, Jeans brands, ...etc.

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Edit: after all you have to see these movies (or even reading books) witha critical mind. dont be a passive recieptor and just get influenced easily as most of these movies represent personal experiences of its authors or cultural concepts that are not relevant actually to our society.

Answer 6

Thank you for your question I have enjoyed reading the answers you have so far...... thumbs up to them all!

As for me, like Kalooka I use the same imagination as when reading & try to keep an open mind on most things. If you cannot do this you can become very influenced in all different aspects of what you are reading/viewing. Example : One of my cousins loves all the American soaps & movies, he can speak excellent English........... In an American accent!

Yasser this sucks! Hehehehe!!!!

Answer 7

Yes actually 2 movies influenced me.

1- Dances with wolves: taught me how to think about everything n not to take any fool steps.

2- Scent of a woman: how to appreciate gifts from God.

Answer 8

I think the whole point of movies are to move people, or influence people in some way.  As or myself, I think that some movies make people think more about the issue the movie is all about, so it has at least a little influence on people, if not a lot.

Answer 9

Effect is different from a person to another. Level of education, age and social eefects among other factors makes the difference.

It all depends on your perception of the movie

Answer 10

look my point of view is the job of the art or we will say here cinema as we are talk about it so the cinema job is to show problems to the politician to solve

so the most imp. jobs for me is cinema and politic