"Films are supposed to be teach you something, and also to make you feel something worth feeling. "
First, this is YOUR opinion, don't speak the for the rest of us.
Next.....what did Troll 2 "teach" you?
How about Independence Day ?
Avatar?
Films play on your emotion, but they're not learning tools, unless you're a film student.
I'm sorry, but this is about the silliest thing I've ever read anywhere. That you go to the movies....to be "educated"? That makes absolutely no sense. You go to the movies to escape. Even if you considered yourself "open minded", you don't go watching Schindler's List to get a FACTUAL account of what REALLY happened. You go to the Library of Congress and dig up old concentration camp footage or go talk to somebody who lived in the camp first hand, opposed to somebody who is thinking of your heartstrings as well as the story.
Basically: people I know who go to movies go to see a DRAMATIZED version of an event.
Do some walk away with differing opinions than they had when they entered the theater? Perhaps, but they don't go to actually LEARN something new. If that were true, any movie watcher could bypass Harvard and end up running the country. Furthermore, you said it yourself "something worth feeling", hence "escape to a different emotion". You don't go to a movie to feel trapped, do you?
Sorry, I just think you expect well too much from films. I hate to tell you...but you've learned nothing from film. I've found things I agree with, things I'd like to learn about, things I'd like to talk about...but, never once was I watching a film and I walked out better before of it.
You may think or relate a concept in a film to your daily life in aspects, but the actors and actresses on screen are just that: actors. Not teachers. The director is somebody who gets paid to LIE to you.
If you can't differentiate, we really are in a sad situation here.
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