TOEFL® Essay: Serious and entertaining movies

[Konstantin]

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Question:
Some movies are serious, designed to make the audience think. Other movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain. Which type of movie do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Answer:
I prefer the serious movies with complicated subject and unpredictable final. And I do that since they provide me new knowledge, fresh emotions and possibilities to change my mind about something or somebody.

It makes a big difference for modern people to spend their time more rationally and I believe that the movie representations should give not only fun but also some kind of knowledge. There is a huge amount of historical, autobiographic and science films which allow me to enjoy the action and learn the history or something else at the same time. It’s also very exciting to talk the first-rate movie about the World War Two or about the Earth’s future over with friends.

Since the invention of the cinema, movie industry has tried to replace any other genres of art like theatre. Since that strong human emotions: love, hate, compassion have often become a core of the contemporary film. For example, you could find all of such passions in the movie “The Godfather”, which unified incredible emotions with the atmosphere of the first half of the twentieth century in the USA. On the other hand in unserious movies, as today’s movies for teenagers, there are numerous cut and dried feelings, but there aren’t deep ones.

It may sound strange, but I obviously confident that a good movie, like a good book or a good advice, could change the life way of a person. The good movie remains in memories for long time, while the movie, designed for entertainment would be forgotten on the next day. If a child seen a film about extinct species of animals and he felt compassion for them he apparently would never be the severe adult.

Probably my opinion is wrong but I suppose that we need more serious movies in the cinemas and on the TV. Not only because of interesting knowledge or feelings, but also as they could radically change our lives.