Blogpost 5: Movies: Good or Bad?

Many of us was told in an early age that watching horror films is not healthy for the brain, because it corrupts our ideas about the reality and not. Most of us thinks that horror is nothing but a scare to people also it can make people stressed and worked out, but does horror film really only gives us negative effects? or does it also has a positive side? I searched some articles about this matter and I was able to find out some facts and possible answers to my question. Some of these articles says that there are bad effects of watching it but at the same time there are also articles that says it can be helpful to us.

In this article made by Kathy Benjamin entitled 5 scientific way watching movies effect you there are 5 effects that can affect you either Psychologically or mentally and these are the following:

The first one is that they can ruin your health we don't know what might be risking our physical and mental health. It may affect our heart rates and blood pressures specially to those who has heart problems because it may cause heart attacks,watching films could also be of good use to anyone.It can cause burning of calories which is good for one's body. Also by being scared, it can cause a good circulation of blood in the body.It can also make you more productive, by watching movies it may enhance your creativity and critical thinking which you may use in reality. If you watch many movies of different genres it could really be helpful to your life as a student.It can also control your thoughts, after watching a couple of horror films our minds tend to remember that these things really couldn't happen in reality so as we grow up, we never got scared to horrors any longer because we know in our selves that these things are only made for entertainment and can never be true.The last is that it can make you more aggressive, people nowadays especially the teens always applies what they watched into their own life regardless if it violence or romances which sometimes is not a good thing. If children are used to this kind of things they would bring it up until they grow old.

After reading this article I learned that there are many effects watching different kind of movies to one's mind. Watching movies can have both good and bad effects to people but it is up to the person if he/she will bring this up to the real world whether it is violence or romance.

While I was searching for possible articles that may help me I saw this one article that is very interesting, But the bad side is that it is concerning more about on women but it also goes for males. The title of the article is Watching horror movies good for the brain written by Shruti Ravi

"Research suggests that while women  watch horror flicks, the brain secretes neurotransmitter dopamine, glutamate and serotonin. Thus, increased brain activity gets the state of mind alert for a while. Additionally , threat signals that pass through the hypothalamus (in the brain) will stimulate the adrenal glands to produce adrenaline and opiates which has an anesthesia like effect. After watching the movie for half and hour, the system of the body will be calm and the defense system will become more powerful. That is when the immune system in the body will be stronger for a while."

Knowing about this matter made me laugh I never knew that watching horror could help the health of women which is a good thing, the only problem is on how we could convince them because most women when we say horror they tend to walk away and refuse to watch because they are afraid of ghosts and other supernatural creatures. But we should convince them to watch occasionally because it would really help them in their health and at the same time there would be a bonding time.

In my opinion watching horror films could really be helpful because it not only boosts our abilities and strengthen our beliefs but it can also help us in our health. So I am suggesting that more people should watch horror once in a while specially to those who have many calories in the body because it can burn them by just merely focusing on the movie.