is watching a movie a good or bad influence?

Television and movies definitely influence people and the way they think and behave, even what they are attracted to. In order to get emotionally invested and involved with characters in a film it requires that we "suspend disbelief". And when you do that you open up the doorway towards being influenced. Do you own a southpark shirt? Then you have been influenced. What kind of car do you drive? What kind of soda do you drink? What kind of clothes do you wear. Even if a film, television show, commercial or magazine add does not change our basic character, we are all still influenced by what we see and hear on a daily basis. I think most people responding to this discussion are really commenting on the amount of control this woman's husband has over the decisions she gets to make about the things she wants to do.

You have no idea what type of influences I have been under.I was married to an abusive husband,I changed my life in order to keep peace in my house.After I grew a back bone and had a trusted friend,a nurse, take photos of the last beating I endured.Having the photos taken was the ending of my first marriage. I met a very religious man and and he helped me go back to the person I was before my first husband. I did not run out looking for a new husband. I took a long break from any relationship and learned what I would or wouldn't accept."Free will",such a good thing. P.S. I don't watch southpark or drink carbonated sodas...ever, it's bad for my health.Car I have I got for the gas mileage, Have a nice day and happy new year

I understand exactly what you are saying. Most people are living out a script that the media has assigned them. The ideas about what is "normal" are presented to us through television and other mediums. When I was in the sixth grade a little movie called 'Clueless' came out. I went to a predominantly white school, and all of the girls there lived out that stereo typical white experience. The weeks that followed that movies release were a prime example of what we are talking about, the way they walked, talked, and the clothes they wore had to be in line with what the movie said was cool. I went to see the GI joe movie, which I thought was cool because I love action flicks. Leaving the theater and driving home with my two guy friends who went with me was like babysitting a couple of five year olds who had been watching Power rangers. And we are all in our mid to tlate twenties or early thirties.