All the things I learned from the american movies!
May 16th 2008 03:50
I was in the cinema the other day thinking after the 10th time I see the same thing, that if I see somebody injecting himself with heroin I will scream! That when it stroke me: despite the fact that I never tried, seen drugs or drug consumers before I know what what is there to know to be a user! I know how to smoke it, sniff it, inject it(I am talking about exactly how to do so: putting a rubber band on my arm, mixing the drugs with the blood before finally injecting it), burn it to have the fumes...etc. All that thank to the movies! well knowing all that I wonder how come I never tried and the effect that might these images have on easily influenced teens. I would understand the profusion of these images in movies that deals with addiction issues, or if they actually give an input to the story but quite often they don't; and quite honestly I think that they can be suggested instead of shown as an everyday scene. Showing people getting, smoking, injecting drugs in daily lives just along with a story that has nothing to do with it, just makes things seem more acceptable, more normal just like somebody smoking or drinking tea.
And I forgot to mention the profusion of strip clubs where it seems normal to hang out in even for cops.
I guess sure there is a reality that we should not ignore, but there are many things that influences the audience and they way of thinking specifically when they are at a young age.
Then there is what is transmitted by the teens movies and series. All the discussions and events are about girls looking pretty and girlfriend boyfriends. How does that influence the teenagers? Having sex in these movies are so normal that a teen might feel abnormal not doing it. Isn't that partially responsible for these kids who get pregnant at an age where they are still playing with teddy bears and had no clue that they could be pregnant?
I guess there are many things like that that I can see in movies that teach me things that I might not want to know or need to now, as a teen as a women, as a father ...etc.
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