Some people believe that the only purpose of films is to entertain. Others say films should have educational value. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Opinions are divided on whether movies should solely serve as a mode of entertainment or they should also have educational value. It is true that most filmmakers now place much importance on the entertainment side of movies, but I firmly believe that those movies can also teach viewers many things in life.
On the one hand, the only role that movies play is to entertain movie-goers, according to some. The key rationale of this view is that people often go to a movie in order to have a good time or to have something to talk with their friends. Usually, this means that they expect movies to have a special sound and spectacular visual effects as well as famous actors. For example, “Aquaman” starred Jason Momoa as well as having many epic battles. Such elements became talking points of the movie’s fans for weeks on end.
However, it is over-simplified to say that the effects of the movie are only confined to entertaining its fans. Anyone who has watched “Aquaman” will probably learn many crucial lessons in life such as failures are the stepping stone to success, greatness can only be achieved with patience or we should stand up against wars and cruelty. Since these lessons are not taught or usually overlooked in the educational setting in most countries, movies can be an ideal vehicle to instill in people such positive thoughts and values.
In my view, I am convinced that as well as giving movie fans a chance to have fun, a truly successful movie is often able to connect with them on a deeper level. Take, for example, “Friends with benefits”, a big box-office hit in 2011. The movie successfully conveyed a thorny social issue among young adults in the US, which was about young adults avoiding serious relationships and overlooking the meaning of sex and friendships. The movie had a ripple effect on and was also a wake-up call for many young people in the country. I would say the same for many other great movies such as Love Rosie, 50 first dates or 500 days of Summer, all of those are successful without starring any popular movie actor or having any epic scene because they can teach us important lessons in life or raise awareness of existing problems that people avoid talking about.
In conclusion, despite people having different views, I believe that movies can be and should be both recreational and educational. It is predicted that moviemakers would pay more attention to making cinematic productions capable of connecting with viewers on a deeper level
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, so, still, well, for example, in conclusion, such as, talking about, as well as, in my view, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2102.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 429.0 315.596192385 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89976689977 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.864026972 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 176.041082164 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55710955711 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 506.74238477 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.6146075342 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.647058824 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2352941176 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166902413094 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606204746571 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0584487976758 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106001328581 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334611952936 0.056905535591 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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