How movies can make you smarter
Everybody loves watching war movies, at least everyone I know. There was a time when Vietnam war movies were a big hit and almost every possible movie maker in Hollywood made a war movie. Movies are a good way of regurgitating information that would normally be a headache to remember. Coupled with an affective approach, movies make you remember names and dates far better than all of the history books and journals combined. The cinematic experience brings you to the scene where it all happened and you can practically experience the travails and torments of the Vietnam war in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”. Or the sacrifice of the Japanese soldiers in Clint Eastwood’s “Iwo Jima”. Or simply the horrors brought about by the Hutu Militia in Terry George’s “Hotel Rwanda.”
Language learning through movies. Probably the most common
