Why Are Movies So Important To Society?

When people say that movies matter are they really right? How does this make any sense?

The shared reality is that we have always documented our lives through art for the vicarious experience of others. Movies are art; they are products of artistic methods made for direct subjective experiences.

However, that is quite the open definition. By this standard, you could include things such as pottery, architecture and synthetic drugs. Movies are more unequivocally definable as art due to their closer links to our most primitive methods of artistic expression.

From carving art into walls to layering art with paint, over time we have continued this practice of using the most relevant tools available to represent the stories and fantasies of our times through visual mediums. We added sounds to visuals as soon as we could. We'll add other senses as often as convenient.

Every good story requires, for value, some messages of worth. This is always in tandem to any artistic integrity.

Now, today, evolving from still photography and paper-based hard/softback books, we have transformed our methods for representation into moving pictures and audiobooks. These particular art forms, along with music, have become our most relied upon sources of meaning.

Movies, as tied to our always existing practice of representation through art, are a manifestation of a seemingly fundamental requirement of our existence. We appear to need movies.

They inform, educate, miseducate, record and inspire. Connecting with groups of people on a surprising amount of layers. Movies mirror, validate and steer aspects of societies intermixed. The more you see something pleasing, the more accustomed to it you become.

Regardless of whether you are conscious or deliberate to make movies have 'an effect', every film that you watch has some kind of one-way information transfer with you.

And... this is because seeking connections with art is in your genes.