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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA Therefore I think that if British bands, vocalists, and personalities were featured more in films these films will move forward to a new and greater era of popularity, and would receive enthusiastic audiences everywhere.
My age is 18 years, am British subject. My profession is a waiter, my parents are Restuarateurs (Restaurateurs). Male Sex.
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I should like to answer the two questions put forward in last weeks Picturegoer.
To the first one I can reply that films have most certainly influenced my life. I am 19 years of age, and until I started work at the age of 1 6 led a very retired life. Consequently my chief idea of life was formed on what I saw at the pictures and what I read in books. I couldn't understand why people weren't as polite, as tasteful and as kind as I saw them in films. Consequently I lived in a constant state of disillusion until I learned a little more sense. Have films been a good or bad influence? Well on the whole, I think definitely more good than bad comes from films. Admittedly, certain types of girls make what they see in some sorts of films, an excuse for rowdy behaviour and heavy make-up, but then, I honestly think that these girls wouldn't be very much different if they had never seen a film in their lives. People blame most bad things to the influence of films, but that is unwarranted. There is more good taste in clothes than there used to be, and this is only because they have the constant example of good clothes before them on the screen.
As for myself, well I have been influenced in many ways. All films influence me in clothes. This is only to be expected in a girl. Most films show good manners — and also show how to behave in hotels and similar places, which is a help to people who seldom travel, when they do visit such places.
I will say this, that morals have not been badly influenced in films. Films compare very favourably with modern books when it comes to the question of morals. School-mates gave me more unpleasant ideas on love than films ever did. In love, films have definitely shown me what I want. I think that the happy companionship and love shown in such films as Mrs. Miniver is the ideal of everyone. Perhaps they make us expect too much in our boyfriends, but there, once more, common sense must come to our aid.
In conclusion I will say this. In films, like all things, one must be
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