This is where I refer to as my personal space but through the world's eyes -yours. I mentally mumble and jumble quietly day by day, since writing has become my most fulfilling outlet, I have been doing a lot of that lately.
Sometime last week during my "Crime and Media" class while we were discussing on the topic called watching crime fiction my mind wondered off into a state of reverie. Ever since the invention of the Black box in the early 1900's the world has never been the same. It has become like an addiction with no therapeutic cure, Eyes glued endlessly from generation to generation to keep one entertained, informed, educated or .........what ever the case maybe. Just as the various industries differ and increase over time, the boob tube has always kept up with various interests to keep us glued to feed our want.
The impacts are so enormous, so much so that research studies have been carried out to show its effects. Various researchers have deduced different results saying It affects your brain switching the left side of your brain to the right side, using an emotional response which results in little or no analysis of information, It reduces brain activity and promotes physical addiction just to mention a few, I was quiet surprised with some findings like its effect on increased death rate due to decreased mental productivity and shorter attention span.
Need less to say everything has its good and bad sides. Since the inception of "the box" the good, the bad, the ugly and so much more have been viewed and registered in our minds and thoughts, albeit subconscious/conscious.
From inventions to agents of destruction, earth to the moon, crime to justice, Mozart’s to Elton John, Ford to Aston martins, computers to tablets, flying machine to Airbus A340 and so on and so forth the transition of various industries have happened before our eyes through our favourite black box.
I remember growing up as a child, my mother always cautioned us about the kind of programmes we watched on TV. She always insisted we watch mostly movies with moral meanings and not just for entertainment all the time. I was always inquisitive and always hid to watch the "banned" movies or programmes as she put them, as time went on I began to see the relevance of her stern measures.
Being a TV junkie myself I have enveloped my sub-conscious in different genres of movies, documentaries and soaps from Historical, Musical, Soap Operas, Fantasy, Popular culture (horror, crime, detective) Action and of-course Romance, the list goes on and on. From American to British, Italian, Indian, French, African and East Asian movies, different stories have been told that we regard as our favourites based on our personal preferences.
I don’t have a particular favourite movie but because there are so many with different story lines and meanings. A few of my favs movies include: The Godfather I, II and III, Al Pacino, The Count of Monte Cristo, Troy, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur, Roots, The American Gangster, Brown Sugar, A beautiful mind, Hotel Rwanda, City of God, Fair Game, Bridesmaids,3 Idiots, I am Khan, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Peter Pan, The pacific, Jet Li, Catch me if you can, Avatar, Diary of mad black woman, An affair to remember, Perfume- The story of a murderer , Pan’s labyrinth , Slumdog Millionaire, In-Time, Twilight . The list goes on but these are just a few that came to mind at the moment.
The moral of the story is entertainment has and will continue to evolve my take on the matter is to be selective of we choose to watch as they will have an impact on our mental state consciously or unconsciously.
Please feel free to leave constructive comments and these are just some of my thoughts.
Toodle-oo!
Sometime last week during my "Crime and Media" class while we were discussing on the topic called watching crime fiction my mind wondered off into a state of reverie. Ever since the invention of the Black box in the early 1900's the world has never been the same. It has become like an addiction with no therapeutic cure, Eyes glued endlessly from generation to generation to keep one entertained, informed, educated or .........what ever the case maybe. Just as the various industries differ and increase over time, the boob tube has always kept up with various interests to keep us glued to feed our want.
The impacts are so enormous, so much so that research studies have been carried out to show its effects. Various researchers have deduced different results saying It affects your brain switching the left side of your brain to the right side, using an emotional response which results in little or no analysis of information, It reduces brain activity and promotes physical addiction just to mention a few, I was quiet surprised with some findings like its effect on increased death rate due to decreased mental productivity and shorter attention span.
Need less to say everything has its good and bad sides. Since the inception of "the box" the good, the bad, the ugly and so much more have been viewed and registered in our minds and thoughts, albeit subconscious/conscious.
From inventions to agents of destruction, earth to the moon, crime to justice, Mozart’s to Elton John, Ford to Aston martins, computers to tablets, flying machine to Airbus A340 and so on and so forth the transition of various industries have happened before our eyes through our favourite black box.
I remember growing up as a child, my mother always cautioned us about the kind of programmes we watched on TV. She always insisted we watch mostly movies with moral meanings and not just for entertainment all the time. I was always inquisitive and always hid to watch the "banned" movies or programmes as she put them, as time went on I began to see the relevance of her stern measures.
Being a TV junkie myself I have enveloped my sub-conscious in different genres of movies, documentaries and soaps from Historical, Musical, Soap Operas, Fantasy, Popular culture (horror, crime, detective) Action and of-course Romance, the list goes on and on. From American to British, Italian, Indian, French, African and East Asian movies, different stories have been told that we regard as our favourites based on our personal preferences.
I don’t have a particular favourite movie but because there are so many with different story lines and meanings. A few of my favs movies include: The Godfather I, II and III, Al Pacino, The Count of Monte Cristo, Troy, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur, Roots, The American Gangster, Brown Sugar, A beautiful mind, Hotel Rwanda, City of God, Fair Game, Bridesmaids,3 Idiots, I am Khan, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Peter Pan, The pacific, Jet Li, Catch me if you can, Avatar, Diary of mad black woman, An affair to remember, Perfume- The story of a murderer , Pan’s labyrinth , Slumdog Millionaire, In-Time, Twilight . The list goes on but these are just a few that came to mind at the moment.
The moral of the story is entertainment has and will continue to evolve my take on the matter is to be selective of we choose to watch as they will have an impact on our mental state consciously or unconsciously.
Please feel free to leave constructive comments and these are just some of my thoughts.
Toodle-oo!
Opinionated but original. I like. Good one Shazz!
ReplyDeleteNot bad at all...can be improved. But for a start its a good work
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