MISGUIDING MOVIES!

MISGUIDING MOVIES!

Dear Friends,

Bad Influence of Movies:

Knowingly or unknowingly we are all influenced by the things we watch on TV, Cinemas or Internet; especially the movies have huge influences bad or good on us. Since most of the general public are not consciously awakened people, whatever bad or good things depicted on the movies surely influence people engraving those images in people’s subconscious mind. Here is the real problem because most of the movies are glorifying more bad things than good on the movies like violence, sex, prejudices, hatred, fighting, killings, crimes, war, smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, corruption, black marketing, underworld baddies, drug wars and what not! These bizarre scenes on such mostly commercial movies just to attract people with cheap thrills, produced by profit minded producers & directors are doing huge damages to the people who watch these movies, encouraging people to imitate those violent & morally corrupted scenes directly or indirectly in the society.

Here below are summary lists of bad influences bad movies do have on people, thus misguiding people on the wrong path of life.

1. Movies Encouraging Violence:

Violent movies do disturb our peace of mind and indirectly influence us to imitate or think that violence is a normal thing to do in life, what a misguidance! Most of the movies produced these days are violent based movies with senseless killings, shootings, gun battles that shows how easy to kill someone and how cheap a human life is, what a sorry message people are getting through these violent movies!  It is no surprise that violent crimes are increasing everywhere because people are simply misguided by these violent movies all the time on TV, Cinema & Internet! It doesn’t seem government is going to stop these violent movies nor the producers/directors who are making these violent movies. Then, how to stop these violent misguiding movies? The solution lies with the people who watch them: just stop watching such violent movies; get full information about the movies before watching them; if they are violent based just stop watching them. This way, if the public consciously stopped watching violent movies, sooner or later people will stop making them as well. So, let us stop watching violent movies!

2. Movies Encouraging Smoking:

Smoking is a bad habit, it causes cancer & other diseases, this, almost everybody agrees including even the smokers but why such bad habits are glamorized in most of the movies simply misguiding people to indulge in this bad habit of smoking! This is a total nonsense for the public except for the profit of the Tobacco/Cigarette companies! Are these companies bribing the film producers to advertise smoking by the leading roles in the movies or are the film-makers bad enough to misguide people to indulge in this bad habit is a question of further investigation. Anyway, let us stop blindly imitating smoking and let us stop watching movies encouraging people to smoke.

3. Movies Encouraging Alcoholism:

Alcoholism is another popular theme most of the film makers play with showing rich people with glamorous lifestyles indulging in drinking  in many scenes as if it is a good & healthy habit to follow in daily life, what a misguidance!  Even the scenes of alcoholism by the poor people on the movies have negative impact on the people who watch them encouraging people to indulge in alcohols. So, it is time for people to stop imitating movies and stop alcoholism in their daily life. Let us stop watching films that glamorize alcoholism.

4. Movies Encouraging Drug Addiction:

This is another matter of concern the movies negatively influence people especially the youngsters to indulge in drugs. In many films when such scenes of people using drugs are depicted, it attracts youngsters to taste the drugs rather than to keep away from them. So, unless it is a full educational documentary on drug addiction & how to stop it; it is better for the movies not to depict such drug use scenes often on the movies simply because the impact is mostly negative thus misguiding people to indulge in drug addiction. So, it is time for people to stop indulging in drugs and stop watching movies that glamorize such addictions.

5. Movies Encouraging Slums:

Movies showing heroes or heroines grown up in the slums and becoming great people later, are nothing but encouraging slum life in the cities. Slum life is not meant for decent human life and movies encouraging slum life is simply a misguidance! Instead movies should discourage slum life showing the reality of misery in such sub standard lifestyles, so that people will not live in the slums any more. So, any movie glamorizing people from the slums are in fact misguiding people away from the truth, so, let us stop watching such movies for our own good.

6. Movies Encouraging Racial Prejudice:

Movies are doing a real disservice toward the unity & harmony among the different races of people by introducing such racially prejudiced scenes in the movies where some races are put in superior roles while a particular race is shown in the inferior role do really injure people emotionally when they watch such scenes. So, such kind of racially prejudiced movies are better to be avoided by the people so that the negative influences of such prejudices don’t misguide people. Let us stop watching such prejudiced films.

7. Movies Encouraging Outdated Social Customs:

Many movies, it seems encourage/glamorize outdated social tradition/customs like body/facial piercings [on lips, cheeks, eyebrows, nose, earlobes, naval, genitals etc], tattoos [on face, arms, legs, body etc], long hairs/beards/moustaches, rituals in the temples, animal sacrifices, human sacrifices, cannibalism, animal slaughter, outdated dresses [sarees, dhotis, lungis etc], outdated celebrations [Holi-throwing harmful/dirty powders/liquids to one another, Durga Puja- killing animals in the name of worshipping etc], outdated body decorations/jewelries etc are simply encouraging people to continue following such outdated social customs blindly. So, films glamorizing such useless/outdated social tradition/customs are in fact misguiding people to remain in the bondage of their useless/outdated way of life. So, let us stop following such useless/outdated tradition/customs and stop watching films that encourage them.

8. Movies Encouraging Corruption:

In many movies, corruption, black-marketing, underworld-dons, city gangs, village-thugs, highway robbers, kidnappers, exploiters, murderers etc make great story lines and such glamorized depictions of bad characters do really misguide people influencing people to be like them, get rich and have power over others, what a bad influence! Gotta stop such kind of glamorization of bad people in the movies because such kind of movies have influenced people to become bad & corrupted in the society thus harming all. Let us stop enjoying such misguiding films.

9. Movies Encouraging Material Rat-Race:

Most of the films are all about money, power, glamorous lifestyle, wealthy people and rich guys enjoying the company of the beautiful girls and the best facilities in the cities or elsewhere thus influencing people to think that money is everything and so, gotta collect lots of money by hook or crook to be one like those rich guys shown in the movies and this misguided influence has spoiled many promising youths deviating them from their career pursuits to become gang members chasing fast money and fast-get-rich schemes finally leading them in jails or nowhere.

10. Movies Encouraging Sexual Promiscuity:

Sex sells is the watch-word of the movies! Since most of the movies are made to make profit and sex being the best attraction for people, it is not surprising that most of the movies are filled with sex and sex related scenes all over but the bad influence is that such depiction of sex in such a cheap and repeated way have misguided people looking sex as commercial commodities and having sex without responsibilities thus encouraging sexual promiscuities to the viewers resulting in prostitution,  unsafe sex, spread of STDs, unwanted/teenage pregnancies, unhappy single moms etc. Thus, irresponsible sex movies, in fact cause divorces, break-ups in relationships & families in the society. So, we need to keep guard against watching of such sexually overrated films.

Closing Remarks on Movies:

Finally, having criticized about the bad influences of the bad films [unfortunately majority of them still are!], I am fully, a supporter of good films that help us come up in life, encouraging us to cultivate good habits, to stand up for the right causes, to be dutiful, to grow up healthy, live life purposefully, the real guides for the better life. So, watching good/ideal/educative/inspiring films/movies are a must for all to enjoy life positively.

Happiness for all!

Regards,

Goodman

for HAPPY WORLD SOCIETY

PS: this post was originally written by Goodman on 26 November 2011