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Movies...are they just a form of entertainment?

Movies are a common means of entertainment. For me, instead of chocolates or those other things girls crave for you can give me nice movies, I even prefer it to food(sometimes). Movies are known to help people relax, laugh etc. I actually use movies to motivate myself to read especially on days that the vibe is not there, I tell myself if you read all your courses today then I’ll allow you to watch movies through out the night, this promise alone makes me so happy and motivated. I don’t know if it works for only me. But the big question is, is there more to these movies, are they teaching something, changing our opinion about something, bringing to light a particular issue and have I been able to identify and understand the message, they are trying to pass across?

My friend and I watched a particular south Korean movie “parasite” and we had several valid opinions about the movie. To my friend the movie simply did not make sense at the end of the movie and cannot be qualified an interesting and good movie while for me the movie exposed a lot of things that happen between the social strata and that alone qualifies it as an interesting movie. It teaches valuable lessons like, envy can make us blind, greed is destructive, money does not make you immune to misery, new employees should be well investigated (you can never be too careful).

Grown-ish, another series that is practically annoying me because of Zoe leaving school due to her new found job. This series, in each episode talks about what the university students experience in America, from love, drugs, partying, student loans, fighting for minority rights, handling passion and studies to pregnancy etc. All these are important topics for discussion among youths that would help in redefining culture.

Another Nigerian movie that is one of my favourites is chief daddy, one of the most important things that happened was the way the family members of chief were more concerned about the will than mourning the man’s death. It led me to ask why Africans fight about the will of a rich family member, from ages we hear stories of how the sharing of a dead persons property from land, houses, cars etc led to them killing each other. Does it mean the relatives cannot build wealth for themselves or is just greed? and what can we do to change this culture. Think about it.

In conclusion, have you been getting the real message from each movie?

I would be very grateful if you drop a list of interesting movies to you, I’m done watching the ones I downloaded. Thanks for reading, stay blessed and have a blessed day.