Reading a Book Or Watching a Movie: the Power of Each Medium

Introduction

Nowadays, reading a book and watching a movie are two ways how people spend their leisure time. One might ask, what does reading books even benefits us in sorts of way? How about watching movie? What I might be answering with is why not both? Before that let’s get on about book, there are many types of books such as fiction and non-fiction then broken down into many types. For the fiction part, stories inside are mostly in-part or completely unreal. A novel is the most common form of a fiction book. Novels are stories that typically features plot, settings, themes and characters. Stories and narrative are unrestricted to any certain topic, while a novel can be whimsical, serious or controversial. Non-fiction books are normally known as a reference book which provides information as opposed to telling a story. A movie which is also known as film, motion picture and moving picture. There are various types of movies too, like educational movies or entertainment movies. Educational movies which is obvious involves certain level of education while an entertainment movie normally attracts one’s interest such as a fictional story type of video like Star Wars or Avengers. There are many similarities and differences between reading books and watching movies.

The Emotional Impact of Reading a Book or Watching a Movie

Before we start off, you should be questioning yourself beforehand that do you even read books or do you watch movies? If you do, how else do you view them as? Does watching movie or reading books let you dwell in more emotions? Does reading books let you shows more of your feelings compared with when you’re watching movie? First of all, watching movies let us possess more emotional expression compared to reading books. As human being we love to immerse ourselves with feelings and movie does the job well when trying to express ourselves. As there’s a saying goes, films can bring whole worlds to life before our eyes, make characters into living, breathing flesh and blood.

Compared to a book, a movie provides us with feelings such like a character’s feeling towards his or her father for an example. Those who are referring to a book cannot understand their feelings, an emotional feelings cannot be easily drive through books since a human’s mind cannot interpret heavy feelings through reading. When one watches a movie they thrive to be engulf in emotions instead of being an emotionless creature whom only tries to understand stories. Such are movies like “Titanic” which has been popular since 1997 and one which have just recently been marketed “More than blue” these movies are romantic stories which characters develop their intimate relationship throughout the stories. These movies are published to the public to attract their views and earn money but mainly us as the consumer we bury ourselves in the emotions that are scattering emotional feelings waiting to be absorbed by us. It’s true we cannot mark a book as something that does not provide us with emotional feelings but if it were to be compared it’ll drown in ranks compared to a movie. Thus, there are differences between a book’s strength in providing us with emotional feelings and one of a movie. 

Unleashing Imagination: Book vs Movie

Furthermore, reading books can improve our imaginary skills and creativity compared to watching movies. Lemmy Kilmister once said, “People don't read anymore. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films, it's someone else's vision, isn't it?” From what Lemmy says a movie obstructs one’s imagination as you’re always watching the movie in a third person view and watches as how an actor in the movie acts.

When watching a movie, your brain stops imagine and only focus on how the person acts like for example the movie “The Avengers”, when you are watching it as movie you stand aside and watch as how the movie goes on, and that is how a movie limits your thinking. Meanwhile, if you are reading the book “The Avengers” you are solely relying on your imaginary skills to imagine on how the fights or scene goes inside your own mind. Although it is quite of a simple example but it does imply on how watching a movie and how reading a book differs upon.

Reading a book calls upon the awakening of your dead mind, when you’re watching a film your brain shuts down the part of imaginary thinking and just focus on the part on enjoying the movie. According to a certain research, books are always better. When you read a book, nothing else exists and you can be a whole other person in this completely new and amazing world. You can live as someone else, free of your own troubles, even if only for two hundred pages.From my point of view, books are magic. Why? This is because while the movies are good the books are always better.

Conclusion

So I'm telling you to forget about movie magic and get back to the pure magic that lives upon your bookshelves. Therefore, back to the point, reading books can strengthen our imaginary skills and our creativity while if one is watching a movie you are merely stood upon as an outsider or observer.