Column: A Silent Conversation - Second Draft

In a city where so much diversity exists, it is often hard to find something that, in one way or another, connect us to the rest of the people that surrounds us. Not only cultural differences such as customs, race and language divides us from others, but also the overwhelming routine that the average New Yorker most fulfill everyday. As you might imagine, finding communalities in such a heterogynous population is a challenge. Nonetheless, there are unique hobbies that create a connecting tissue across cultural differences and increasingly exhausting routines. Whether at your home or at the theater, movies has became a unique tool to improve our multi-cultural relationships and a way to re-evaluate our persona.

Movies has long been a part of our culture and with the huge technological advances in the film industry, today more than ever, movies have become an integral part of our society. We all know that not all the movies are five starts movies; nonetheless there are numerous films that are worth watching it that bring us closer toward a more conscious and more accepting society. One fascinating aspects about movies is that it reaches numerous places at the community, city, state, and country level and even across nations. It is just incredible the distances movies can travel and even more fascinating, the diversity of people that get to watch them.

There is not doubt that movies are primarily a source of wealth and entertainment, thus its content play a big role in informing, nurturing, inspiring and even uniting people. One fascinating film that goes beyond entertainment is Forrest Gum, a 1994 American comedy/drama film acted by celebrity Tom Hanks. Forrest Gum is the story of a child who seems physically and mentally impair, but whom overcome numerous challenges through his journey in life. The film is not only entertaining, but demonstrates how segregation, poverty and cruelness still greatly alive in our society. Forrest Gum is a movie that does a terrific job in balancing fiction and reality in a comedy while quietly exposing truths.

Films such as Forrest Gum go beyond entertainment by exposing social realities and creating awareness of issues. They can also be inspiring giving self confident to the viewer. Another fascinating aspect of well done films is the ability to bring the unfamiliar and exposing it to us quietly making us more tolerant to what is unknown to us. Films have conveniently and efficiently wide spread information bringing culture together in an intimate way. Films sure have drastically transform and impacted society in variety always.

In a constantly changing environment, films have giving us a unique way to capture the past, expose the present and explore the future. Nonetheless, one most always be critical and open minded as to what you take out of film. Just as it illustrates good things, it can also influence negative ones. Thus, there is not doubt that films have provided a public space to communicate with the rest of society in an intimate way.