How to Learn From Movies and TV Shows
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How to Learn From Movies and TV Shows
by Melissa Mauro
We used to think that spending time watching movies or TV shows has an entertaining character and wastes our time that we could spend on more useful activities. However, the use and life lessons we can get from watching movies depend on the genre we select. There are lots of films and TV series that are capable of teaching us many things—starting from language dialects to people psychology.
To gain life lessons from movies and tv shows, you must first make time to watch them. Incorporating movie time into your busy schedule will mentally and physically prepare you for the movie. You should also know when to do it. For some people, the best time to watch a movie might be at night because they are typically busier during the day, and for others being the first in line to watch a new movie at noon is more convenient.
We want to dedicate this article to investigating the good and educational side of watching movies and TV shows and also provide you with several examples of such pictures due to positive writing reviews you could watch in your free time.
Profits to gain from watching movies and TV shows
Language learning
This is the number one benefit you can get from watching films. This approach is also used in many educational establishments and language learning courses. Overall, learning a new language from movies and TV shows is the easiest, cheapest, and funniest way to do it. You select your favorite genre or certain film, turn on the subtitles and just memorize new words, phrases, dialects, jargon, etc. Moreover, you also learn the correct pronunciation of the words, stresses, and style of language which will make your speaking close to native. After several practical lessons, you can boldly turn off the subtitles and try to understand a foreign language with no clues. A tine tip from us is to make pauses and repeat new words or expressions aloud to memorize them better and improve your pronunciation.
Behavior psychology
Each movie describes people with different characters, roles, and behaviors. Commonly, each character is tasked with showing a certain type of personality, its common actions, words, decisions, and so on. It is not necessary for the film or TV show to be related to psychology. Watching different genres of movies replenish your knowledge of overall people's psychology, and the motivation for their actions and behaviors, which teaches you to find the right approach to different types of personalities. Watching people from the side allows you to learn their emotions and feelings like you will recognize when people lie, hide real emotions, what things make them happy and what upsets them.
Lifetime priorities
Characters from the movies and TV shows go through many situations and get lots of life lessons for only one-two hours while it lasts. Some of these situations and circumstances can be similar to your real life. While watching a certain film, you can immediately find out the consequences of the decisions or actions on the lives of characters in general in one or another situation. Thus, you think of your real situation, set the right priorities, and act the best for yourself and your surroundings.
Value what you have
Certain movies, TV series, and TV shows teach us to value everything we have in life. People tend to complain every day—lack of sleep at night, traffic jams before work, lack of money, no romantic relationships, and many other things. For instance, movies like “Sweet November” teaches us to value every second of our life and be grateful for all that we have at the moment as once upon a time it can disappear for a second. If you have a bad mood today because of time and senseless situations, don't start blaming everyone in it. Just take your time and keep working to improve your mood and your life overall. The choice is up to you, to continue complaining or start enjoying your everyday life.
Useful movies and TV shows
Friends
“Friends” is supposed to be one of the most popular TV series that counts 10 seasons. This TV series includes six main characters with absolutely different characters, behaviors, emotions, feelings, and fates. They get into different situations and make right and wrong decisions, but their main value is their friendship. No circumstances are capable of running their strong and trusting relationships where they support each other in complex situations and share experiences and pieces of advice. “Friends” shows that building friendly relationships requires much effort and time, but a strong friendship stands any challenges.
The Lord of the Rings
This trilogy has become a phenomenal ad globally popular due to its fantastic graphics, effects, characters, and mystery world. However, not many people think of the things we can learn from these movies. Foremost, it shows us what dedication is. Frodo Baggins had a very important mission and strong will —to end the fight between good and evil and make the good side win. Despite numerous challenges on his way, he kept going to his aim as he knew he had to save the world and his closest one. Another thing these movies teach is what real friendship means. Frodo's friend Sam was following him to the very end of his path, even when some circumstances seemed to be impossible to go through.
The Family Man
This movie is a great example of discovering what family priorities and values are. It shows the dimensions of family and money, career, and success as all these things are possible only if you have support and loving people at home. If you think that money is able to buy you anything you want and will never feel lonely with money, you are definitely wrong. We recommend watching this movie to figure out the real price and consequences of being mercantile.
To sum up
Surely, far not all movies and TV shows are capable of teaching us something, as there are a huge number of silly movies made just for fun. But when you will be watching the next film, try to analyze what you see on the screen. Answer the questions if this movie teaches you something, or if this movie will come in handy in any situation in your life. Thanks to such analysis, you will pick the movies and TV shows you watch more wisely to spend time with maximum use for your personal growth and outlook.
