Do people watch the arts, or media, for the purposes of
entertainment or for a challenging experience? You can definitely obtain both
from something such as watching a movie. For example, the movies we watched in
class. I can definitely say that I found those movies more of a challenge rather
than entertaining. I look back and I simply wish that I could’ve at least
enjoyed them more for their beauty. I was trying too hard to search for that “deep/philosophical’
meaning behind them.
Having said that, I personally watch movies more from the
entertainment point of view. I don’t generally watch a movie to get a
challenging experience. Movies like the Transformers series. They are really,
pretty stupid but I still enjoy watching them because they are entertaining.
But there are some movies out there that I enjoy watching that, I feel, hit the
perfect balance of entertaining and challenging. Some examples are Christopher
Nolan's Interstellar and Inception. They are very entertaining and visually
pleasing, but at the same time they lead you to ask questions and challenge
your thinking. Another movie that I really enjoy is "The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty". Now this movie is entertaining, but it’s not what you’d call
challenging. Rather, it carries a deeper meaning to it, one that has moved a
lot of people who have watched this movie. This movie goes along the lines of a
renewal or rebirth of someone as they escape their mundane lives and do what you'd call "live life to the fullest".
But yeah, I generally watch movies for the entertainment
they bring. But from time to time I really enjoy a movie that brings about deeper thinking.
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