The seventh art
Nowadays, movies have become very popular in our life. In Vietnam,
there is at least one new film hitting cinemas every month, while
television stations often play old films for free. These are reasons of
movies’ popularity.
First, we can learn a lot of things from movies, for example,
language, culture, history, etc. In my old English class, my teacher
likes to play English movies as one of her teaching material. All of our
classmates like this way and think it is interesting and effective to
learn foreign language. Besides, apart from learning language, we
also lively learn English culture that is very different from ours. Movie
is also a good history teacher. The most interesting historical movies I
have ever watched are Life is beautiful, Titanic, Schinder’s list, Gone
with the wind, Pearl Harbor, etc. They all give me a lot of historical
knowledge and more thorough understanding of the golden pages of
World history.
Second, watching movie can release pressure. Most of us live in a
modern and high-tech age. Comparing with my grandma’s age, it
provides us a more comfortable, effective, and rich life. However, it
gives us a lot of pressure as well. Nearly every day, we face pressure
from our job, family, colleagues, etc. Pressure makes us easily
nervous and have negative mood. Movie provides us an easy and
economic way to release our pressure. Movie can take us away from
reality and let us forget the trouble around us temporally.
Thirdly, movies also warn us about urgent problem that we face
today. They warn us about current problems of the earth and say to us
