MOVIES; THE SCRIPTURES OF NEW CENTURY

     Now the world literature has moved from the ancient thespian to the imaginative realm where there is no home for remembrance, of the past, present, even the future. Generally, literature is the mirror of life; either good or bad, the world will gaze another fictions flying in the sky. So the image it brings to the world, the reflection in the real life.

      Normally, literature teaches moral; in its genre, different styles come up to correct mistakes of society. Humans are created with different kinds of perceptions; the home determines the perspective of others. Whether good or bad, it will reflect in the life of others around. One reflects one’s experience to others. Movies, another realm in the literature, with no end, it has transformed the world beyond imaginative alterations. A movie tells about the pros and cons of the world, just to make little change about the existence of humans. Movie serves as the mirror of life today. Many people, especially the youths take into practice, what they see in the movie because it is believed that literature is the reflection of life. Is it to positive or negative, expectation?

     It is unfortunate that many movies we have today neither correct the mistakes of life nor mirror it positively. If a movies do not centre on love, it appears in the desmid of crimes. As the critiques of life, to correct the social gaffe, instead, they lay hands on how to be successful in the faux pas of life, therefore, young lads growing up today practice what they see on movies. Imagine the stowaway teenager who hid in the wheel compartment of an Arik Airline Lagos-bound plane from Benin in August this year? I believe the boy never saw it (how to attempt stowaway) except through movies.

     The worst part of it is a Nigerian Movie I watched last night in an entertainment channel on my decoder, the movie centres on homosexualism—the act that African mentality against, even Nigeria constitution! It is practiced in the movie, how you can be a gay—professional one. But what it is the essence of movies? Many have turned movies to their scriptures both Muslims and Christians follow its tray (not devout ones).

     Movies must be the a source of happiness—spring for entertainment. Movies on the screen in this generation are the heart-blowing ones. The movies that make you sock when you see what your do not expect. In a movies where there is immediate sex as the comic relief, the hallowed mind is robbed with satanic invocations to engage in such thing as it is done in the movies, which in normal sense, a comic relief must be in form of happiness, maybe someone in the first scene striving,  just found himself in the oceanic joy—that is what we know drama for, however, it is the route of corruption now.

     Literature, the mirror of life; drama the reflection of the world, movies the florescent of human minds. To mirror the world, reflect the life, scan the mind, it must be the epitome of social change in positive way, like Hubert Ogunde’s theatre, the world should seen movies as the realm to correct slip-up of life.