Youth and Cinema: Direction or Destruction?
Cinema today is no longer just a screen-based form of entertainment; it has become one of the most influential mediums impacting societal thinking and especially the minds of youth. Unfortunately, this influence is not always constructive. Instead of nurturing the emotional and intellectual development of young viewers, modern cinema often chooses to exploit their vulnerability. It offers them a world filled with superficial romance, fake relationships, attraction in place of respect, and shortcuts in place of real struggle - all packed in an attractive, marketable form. In youth, emotions run deep. This phase is marked by the search for identity, values, and inspiration. When cinema repeatedly presents characters who achieve everything without effort, who lie in love, who indulge in drugs, and still are hailed as “heroes”, it sends the wrong signals. These portrayals become ideologies for some, and mimicry for others - slowly turning into expectations and disappointments. If we look a...