I believe that movies teach you/give you perspective. Movies are motion pictures and pictures are visual representations of life. Movies are able to take the audience and immerse them into their world by evoking feelings, especially when you're being represented on scene.
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"12 Years of Slave"
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For example, as an African American it is one thing for me to read about slavery in books but to get a visual of those events adds another level to my understanding of slavery. I see myself (a black individual) being put in that situation, literally imaging that if I had lived in that time period then I would have gone through the same thing.
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| Noah's Arc |
As an African American homosexual, films can also teach me how to live in certain spaces. Although I have personally never experienced a hate crime, the scene from Noah's Arc shows me how I can be put in that very same situation. While "Noah's Arc" is very fictional, the subject matter is not.
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