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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA
If is (it) were not for these films, I see so little of life, that I should not be aware that the love you have for a brother is any different than that you have for your intended.
These films have made me realise that if I am too (to) take out of life I must probably pay, and I would be willing.
If I could but love and be loved, I shall be well content and not feel that I was born for nothing.
The films have all appeared in my dreams, but that is not remarkable, because I dream every night.
I am 1 8 years, a girl, and I help my Mother at home.
(Personal details for reasons of anonymity withheld. Parents working-class people.)
61. Mr. . . .
Being keenly interested in films not only for their entertainment value but also for their moral and spiritual reaction upon the average filmgoer I should like to take this opportunity of answering your two questions.
My age is 23, I am unmarried and as yet have had no serious love affair. Therefore in my case the question of films having any effect upon love or divorce does not arise but if it did I can answer you most emphatically that films would not influence me in any way and I enlarge that statement to cover any important decision I might make.
In the past when making an important decision I have often thought what some particular actor would have done in my place. In the film he would always make the right decision because he is governed by a story which says he will make it, but placed in my position with facts instead of fiction, his chances of making the right decision would be no more certain than my own. Consequently the influence is cancelled out and I am left with my own opinion.
With regard to religion there has always been the old controversy that the cinema is drawing people away from the church. My answer to that is that anyone who has been brought up in the doctrines of Christianity and professes to abide by them, would not allow his or her belief to be influenced by anything so trivial as a film and that any non-Christian would not suddenly start going to church if films ceased tomorrow. For myself I am and always have been a firm believer in Christianity and so far from allowing films to judge my Christian beliefs I judge films by those beliefs. However while on this subject I should like to make the
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