Does cinema have positive or negative effect on kids? - Page 2

Of course films,books and people around us in our impressionable ages influence our decisions, even decades later. Looking back many of my decisions in life have been influenced by my favorite character- Revathi from Devasuram, a Malayalam film. Quoting Revathi "Even little people like us have our little minds which crave little victories. And I must satisfy it even if it means forsaking my most precious possession -my dance." And she throws her dancing anklets on the rich aristocratic spoiled hero's face, vowing never to dance again and leaves. Revathi's character is a dancer who has trained for years in dance at the best school for dance in Kerala.It is the sole source of income for her family. Still she does it. She does not forgive the hero later even after he repents and apologizes, not even after he helps her and her family in need. That girl has some serious pride. In fact not until something seriously desperate happens and a metamorphosis happens on the hero's side.

negative mostly. bad influence. unusual expectations.

Originally posted by: atominis

I honestly think it has mostly negative impact and makes people unrealistic and hyper sensitive or emotional or prone to fantasy or gives them unrealistic expectations or sometimes irrational fears and anxieties depending on content and it is also promotes unhealthy behaviours, criminal behaviour and crap lifestyle.

It also makes it hard to move on or accept change or passage of time as people keep revisiting old memories to relive past or have flashbacks or often cling to old art too to get feel of those old days.

I remember the rapes and murders in Dushman and Jaago terrorised me as a kid. I realise only now how media and BW may have added a sense of greater insecurity and fear for safety in me. I should not have seen these films or scenes at all and the misogyny and threats in movies and serials are irritating.

I think films also teach you to self objectify. I have seen little kids try to behave like heroes or heroines and take off shirts or pull up own shirts to expose own waist or wear hair and make up like heroes and heroines or copy their dance steps and songs even if they are cheap or foolishly copy aggression, violence and dialogues hoping it is sign of heroism or being a strong person. BW always shows aggression, talking back, arguing back as sign of hero or heroinegiri and if someone copies it in real life or confronts others, especially someone older or senior or in groups or someone in better position, it backfires.

Funnily I have seen groups of kids and youth sing in trains or play some instrument in public hoping others will not mind or rather join them but it backfires if others stare at them like WTH happened?

I do see some kids expect to have friends or parties or reunions like shown in films or serials but they feel bad if their friends are not like that or no one allows them permission to party etc.

Or people waste money or ger despo to copy celebrations and dresses or jewellery or weddings or festivals and honeymoon as shown in films and either want to earn themselves to afford that lifestyle or take loans or pester parents to get that type of dresses of jewels or set up for themselves.

Some also feel fear of what will happen if they see too negative portrayal of professionals or adults or relations in films. Or develop unrealistic notions of professionals or relations too. Like for eg, job of an IPS officer is not as cool as shown in films and honest officials suffer a lot, but they cannot always take a vocal stand like a hero lest it risks their job.

There is no poetic justice in real life nor is leaving jobs and establishing self is as easy as shown in films where people take on their own boss too or confront parents, teachers or VC at uni.

A lot of people have died copying filmi stunts too like that train stunt in Ghulam. A lot of eve teasers and loafers use filmi songs to actually harass women irl.

A lot of criminals and gangsters openly admit inspired by films. One guy admitted he was inspired from Arjun Pandit to be gangster like Sunny's character in the film. And films did show gangsters as heroes many times.

I do think films and TV generally have negative effect and waste time, distract kids from studies and give totally wrong impression of life to younger people who watch it uncritically. They also promote unrealistic beauty and fitness standards which others cannot have in real life and not many know how many surgeries and VFX also go into making heroes and heroines look ageless and perfect.

I think films also promote too many stereotypes and I used to ignore its impact earlier but I was compelled to take note when others would judge us or make assumptions about all people of our state based on caricatures they saw in films or TV.

I kind of regret watching lot of films and T.V. and resent why everyone in my family except my mom, were quite a bit of TV and film buffs.

Beautifully put up and very very true.👍🏼👍🏼

I myself decoded much later how those movies made my outlook unrealistic and unnecessarily overly emotional towards life.

It's basically a writer's overly sensitive and a director's sensational portrayal of life for big screen which one does not/should not feel organically towards life, their own self and towards people in real life.

The effects are profound and absorbed deeply to make it hard to decode/identify them. But there are real negative impacts.

Life is much larger & layered, yet not that dramatic, unlike these over sensationalized/romanticized/overly sensitive films/visual-media makes you or wants you to feel and conceptualize.

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There was a comment on YouTube where a man was sharing how he tried to confront his teacher and tried to speak like Amitabh in Agneepath and got slapped hard. LMAO!

You cannot fight against authority or talk back to teachers or some elder without consequences in real life.

I think parents need to remind kids that films and shows are scripted to be a certain way. It is not reality. No one goes against hero in film because it is scripted. In real life you would be in trouble if others reacted differently.

I do feel some younger relatives of mine are kind of superstitious after seeing too many horror films as well.

I do think films single handedly glorified eve teasing as heroism and made it worse for women. Lot of them glorify ragging too though it is illegal.