How Movies Can Impart Wisdom Into Our Lives

By Emerson Cortez

High speed internet has really opened a lot of doors for downloading movies, games MP3 songs and so much more. After all we must admit itwe are all addicted to movies and love to get hem for free when the chance arrives. It is just in our nature.

Movies help us escape the current reality of our business lives. The journey that a good film can take you on gives you a chance to enter a world of fantasy and fiction as you imagine along with the characters. Movies not only help us by taking our mind off pressures and life in general, but they have a strange way of making us feel good in an entertaining way.

Movies also have to power t educate. Many true stories are filled with conventional tidbits of wisdom that could help if you are facing the same situations and circumstances as the lead character. As an example, movies such as A Home of Our Own, starring Kathy Bates, portrayed what it was like to live in the trappings of steep poverty in America and how to maintain your integrity as a human being.

True stories are filled with valuable life lessons. They are not all about slashing and dicing, but about the same problems we all face at on time or another. As such, we tend to emotionally connect with the characters and what they are going through; all the while introspectively evaluating our own real life events.

The events of true stories seem to resonate with millions of people. The plot, setting, season and the circumstances in which characters find themselves entangled in make us reflect upon a time in our lives when we faced similar situations or challenges. Oddly enough, some people can and do get wisdom from watching movies based on true events when they are going through a similar experience.

When the movie, The Burning Bed was released, it increased awareness to spousal abuse in America, as women all over the country identified with similar abusive relationships. This movie not only helped to influence new laws designed to give women great rights and protections, but also inspired an entire generation of abused women to seek help.

You should be careful forming conclusions based on real life stories. While it is okay to identify with the circumstances of the leading character, it is not always okay to follow the conventional wisdom behind a movie. Your life circumstances although similar in nature are very unique and therefore require specific reassessments and evaluations.

The next time you rent of buy a movie based on a true story, realize you are identifying with the synopsis of the movie in some way. The characters, the scenarios and the plot all mean something within your subconscious mind. Could it be you are looking to see how others handled a particular problem or dealt with a set of unsettling crises? Who knows if the wisdom of their outcome will ebb into your subconscious mind and influence you. - 30542

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