Greetings!!
The number of movies released everyday is ever-increasing. With slight changes in the movie plots (since success comes to those whose situations are kept near to real life), a number of similar movies are released every day. The impacts of these movies are evident on people now more than ever.
A few days back, I overheard someone repeating how a distant relative took a leap for marrying his love. The “dramatic” element in this story, however, was this relative’s beloved mother’s attempt at destroying her son’s relationship by the heroic phone call to his to-be, cursing her madly and forcing her to leave her son alone. I couldn’t help smiling when I heard this part – did she really believe this would work?!
If we look at the 19th century romantic movies, we can surely find such replication in them. In those idealistic scenarios, the villainous mother-in-law is usually shown as triumph over her daughter-in-law initially, but to keep the “. . . and they lived happily ever after!” element alive, the ending depicted the mother-in-law realizing that the lady she cursed is in fact the best spouse for her son.
We need to realize that movies are just movies – idealistic situations, a bunch of actors, and some money thrown in to release it for public’s entertainment! That is it!! Such situations are not REAL!! This world is NOT a dramatics theater!! Some fortunate people may benefit from replicating these hypothetical situations – but often it does not work!
With psychological advancements growing roots everywhere, entering every horizon, why is it so difficult for people to relate their problems with psychology?! I believe the real-life situation quoted above could have been dealt in a better way if the mother had tackled the situation sensibly instead of unleashing her heroic dramatics and worsening the decisions in her own regards!
Peace.
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