By Wang Yichuan

Movies and television plays are playing increasingly important roles in the entertainments and exerting profound impact on modern life. In the meantime, they are more often involved with nudity, violence and bad language. Whether those programs are blessing or curse to Western young people has sparked spirited debate. Some people argue that young people in the West become more independent and responsible from seeing those films and TV programs while many others contend that they have detrimental effect as well. Personally, I am in favor of the former view.

Convincing argument can be made that those movies and TV programs will bring audiences about some light and stimulate thoughts of life. To start with, those movies usually show the latent side of human nature which might be rough, weak, evil that woke up by some extreme situations that they haven’t meet in real life.

Therefore they can help young people to have better understanding of life, the life they will confront — pain, disappointment, tight squeeze, they are lessons to show the young how difficult and unpredictable life is and teach them to fight against barriers and to solve problems on one’s own. Moreover, those movies and TV’s scenarios are often related to gunfights, robbery, which reflecting social problems to causes people’s concern. Specifically, it can cultivate the young’s sense of right and wrong and make them clear about what people or emotion deserve to defend to protect to cherish. In other words teach the young to take their responsibilities for their action, their families and love.

Admittedly, many instances of juvenile delinquency have been attributed to the violent or pornographic content of some TV shows. The reason for this is that many youngsters, especially boys, get addicted to such scenes and lack of the correct guidance from eldership. Obviously, it can be fixed by more care and cooperation between parents and schools.

In summary, I would concede that those shows may lead to youngsters’ criminal tendencies or some mental troubles. Despite that, they can become more independent and responsible from analyzing and comprehending the plot and character with correct guidance. Overall, I’m convinced that young people in the West can be benefitted from those shows.