Not everyone thinks about it this way, but movies educate us about life better than any school or religion.
Why? Because our brains trick our bodies into thinking that we are the ones experiencing the events on the screen.
And this is scientifically verified fact. Your mouth waters when you watch Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Your heart palpitates when Ethan Hunt makes impossible missions doable through technology, acrobatics and bombs. And your … well, let’s just say certain things happen to your body when James Bond and one of his lady friends start making out.
Although none of us will probably have such adventures, we’d sure like to.
The best part about movies is that they can teach us how not to live. Ancient tragedies like Oedipus Rex taught hard lessons to the Greeks about what not to do, and a sufficient number of those folks listened well-enough to ensure that Western culture thrived.
Here are 10 classic movies from our own era with terrible lessons intended to teach us to live better psychologically healthier and longer so we can see even more movies before Father Time finally checks his watch and summons Mr. Death.
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I never really gave Titanic much thought but that’s a very good point that’s making me look at the film a little differently now. Although one thing I always thought was weird about it was the end where Rose and Jack dance while the Titanic passengers watch in what is I’m assuming Heaven. I just wonder what Rose’s husband thinks of all this?
i know its not a classic movie but i think the dark knight taught you a terrible lesson too “its better a lie that rewards people fate than a horrible true”
Slavoj Zizek is a true genius. Anything he says is not only true, it should be used as the guidepost for all humanity.
There are many styles and genres of dance. African dance is interpretative. Ballet, ballroom and tango are classical dance styles. Square dance and electric slide are forms of step dance, and breakdancing is a type of street dance. Dance can be participatory, social, or performed for an audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves, as in ballet or European folk dance, or have a gestural vocabulary or symbolic meaning as in some Asian dances.-`
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