In today’s society we have been provided with a great amount of knowledge thanks to the technology around us. Many of us watch movies or shows that are always meant to entertain an audience and to potentially create an impact. I believe this is why the movie industry is gigantic and will keep growing to make films that can make someone see the world a different way.
Many films around the world have taken hard topics such as homosexuality, racism, addiction, or suicide. All of the issues happening in our world gives many directors the opportunity to show such topics through film and entertain people, in which many get a big audience. However as impactful as the film industry is trying to be, they are failing to get people to be aware of such matters, instead focusing on the small, irrelevant points.
I am a big fan of many films or shows that can allow me to relate to the topics being spoken of, additionally allowing me to be aware of something that I did not know was a problem in our society. I am extremely open minded but I am aware that some people are not, which makes it harder for them to take such awareness factors seriously. Films such as Call Me By Your Name, Beautiful Boy, Green Book, The Hate You Give and many other known movies that try to bring recognition to hard themes, many ignore and Postman said in the title of one of the chapters in his novel, many say “Now…This”, which refers to the ignorance and short attention spam that many have towards important issues in the world.
Directors who film movies to bring awareness to an important issue should not be aiming to win an Academy Award, instead should be putting their effort into allowing and helping others to show that many of the factors shown in films is not fiction. Instead of judging someone’s acting style, or the color of their skin, or the way the look the public should dig deeper and come out of the movie theater with a new perspective in life and in new ways that they can help those in need.
Difficult issues should not be taken as a form of entertainment which can allow more action to be taken from everyone, we need to forget about small details in such films and realize how the whole film revolves all over what is happening in our society and the best ways to fix the problem. Which will allow us to become more aware of the importance of films rather than take them as just another part of the entertainment industry.
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