In the Movie

This weekend I was able to go back home for my family's annual Halloween weekend. Every year around Halloween time, my siblings and I all travel home to have a family fun filled weekend. Every year we go to Universal Studios Hollywood Horror Nights. Now, this is in California and if you don't know what it is, basically you pay to go to a theme park at night to walk through themed mazes to have people scare you. It is truly the scariest thing ever because it feels like you are actually in a scary movie and things jump out at you. Every year I ask myself why I do it and every year, I have the most fun because there is not only a thrill about getting scared but there is so much fun in watching people get scared. As I was walking around getting scared, I realized the tremendous effect that movies have had. I mean, here I am walking through this "Stranger Things" maze where it looks exactly like the house and I'm getting scared by the actual scary creatures from the show. I mean there is a whole night dedicated to scaring people from people in movies or TV shows. This made me realize how much  movies can effect us and people. Movies have a power to make us feel things or see things differently and I think that it is important to notice these influences and try to be more observant and involved consumers of media and think about how movies influence us in good or bad ways because there are always both types of influences. I think there is such a power in media and we have to acknowledge it.