1.) After reading the introduction chapter to Engaging Cinema, what are your initial thoughts as to studying the subject of film?
I am excited to study film, even more so after reading the first chapter of Engaging Cinema. It showed me that there are different ways to look at film. It showed me how film can be anything from a silent film of a person walking down the street to a full length film that was made completely by computers such as Toy Story. I also never took into consideration how film affects its viewers, whether for good or bad. When I sit and watch the movie I do not realize how said film is affecting me. But, there are different cases of which people do get influenced so much by characters in big films that they may attempt to reenact those situations.
2.) Are movies a social danger of social benefit?
I think they are a bit of both. As I stated above, there are different cases in which people may reenact different situations in movies, that are not good. But at the same time movies such as Monuments Men, is teaching people of a real historic event that happened that many had no idea occurred. Overall I would say that they are a benefit, just for the soul reason of what the viewrs can obtain and learn from film.
