How do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

Hesitating I enter my house, the light outside is dimming and the shadows make everything appear unfamiliar. I know that my husband has not returned from work yet, simply because his car is not in the garage. I am alone. I carefully check all the rooms, almost expecting something to happen suddenly. I hold my bag in my hand as if it were a weapon. After the whole house has been declared "clear," I start to breathe normally again and a smile appears on my face as I realize, once again, how a simple movie seen at the cinema a week earlier can modify my actions. Sometimes I

wonder

if I should watch

TV

, with all its shows that make me

wonder

whether I exercise enough, whether I am slim enough, or whether I treat my pets with the care they deserve: am I really concerned about their mental health?

Not to mention

the hundreds of commercials that try to make me believe I need a water purifier to remain alive since the water I am currently drinking is heavily polluted! And countless are the times when I have heard people talking by quotations learned from movies. We need to watch shows and films to know what to say, how to be, how to act. We are so addicted to all

this

that it almost seems like we cannot think on our own. I cannot help thinking about what happened to me some days ago, an example that clearly shows what kind of power

TV

has over people. My husband and I were in a restaurant when I heard my young neighbor pronouncing violent words in a low angry voice. Surprised, I turned to better understand the situation and I saw that he was holding a fake military device and was acting as if he were filming a war movie. I am sure that if I had been a little be more updated about

this

type of movie, I would have recognized what he was saying as a quotation. Now, I

wonder

if he uses

such

a language

also

with his friends and with his parents, if he is aggressive, and if so, whether his attitude has really nothing to do with what he watches on

TV

. That same evening on the way home I saw two cars stopped one next to the other at a traffic light and as soon as the light turned green they started racing, in the middle of town. In

this

case not even a major knowledge of movies and

TV

programs would have helped me: there are just to many of them on the market showing the exact same thing: people racing with cars. I am sure that everybody, if asked, could easily list many other examples of how

TV

and movies can modify our behavior and

therefore

our life but, I

wonder

, if we will always be able to draw the line between a

TV

show and real life, between what they make us think we want and what

instead

we really need and are and believe.