How movies can make you smarter
use of movies is learning another language. Movies employ dialogue that is rich in irony, paradoxes and humor which are all higher-level applications of language. To understand a movie in another language is to really stretch your comprehension and memory to get it right in one viewing. So what did Mary Poppins mean when she sang “supercalifragilisticespialidocious”? What did Dirty Harry mean when he said “Go ahead punk, make my day!” Indeed, movies are food for the brain.
I have tried watching foreign movies that had subtitles and I found it frustrating that the translation didn’t translate the humor effectively. However, has it made me any smarter? I believe it has. Movies also
