Books vs. Movies

Both books and movies have their own advantages. They both include information, which undeniably useful, interesting, and educating. The most noticeable thing for two of them is the same, they can affect one’s mind deeply, and especially they can change one’s paradigm. In my opinion, there is nothing changes one’s paradigm but books and movies.

Advent of motion pictures is very recent; the world’s earliest film was first showed by Louis Le Prince, in 1888. But motion pictures have been developed rapidly. Moreover, people’s attraction to movie is spreading. Watching movies can give several advantages to audiences. For example; audiences do not spend time as much as book readers do, and much more exciting and intensive. Also watching movies is a social activity. We can see the characters and hear the conversations, so we can easily understand it and can feel if we were there, on a movie screen. In addition, we can find developments of art, person’s competence, computer-graphics, and new ideas there, on movie screens. Because, making a movie is not one’s work, the group’s effort. That can give audiences not only a story but also information of developing world.

Books; one of the greatest invention of humans is also have several advantages that movies can not provide. For example; more detail, more rhetoric, author’s original work, and more intimate activity. It is a common practice, one who has read the book can get more knowledge than one who has seen the movie. We can also improve our understanding, linguistic, vocabulary and grammar ability by reading. Furthermore, we can improve our imagination and speed of thinking.

In my own practice, I have read books which have been showed on the movie screen, what I felt after watching the movies was too brief and misunderstandings of some points. ‘It was just for money? Or it was just a bad movie?’ I thought. In my opinion, in most cases, movies undermine the real novel’s taste. But I can not avoid the influence of movies. In my opinion, both books and movies have their own extraordinary features. In conclusion, I do love both of them.