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Nowadays, people who have free time do some activities to have fun and enjoy. Here are some examples: reading books, watching movies, playing board games and other stuff. Today’s discussion is about books and movies. People have been divided in two categories for a long time. Those who prefer books over movies and those who prefer movies over books. Let’s discuss both.
Reading books improves our vocabulary and imagination. Imagination plays one of the most important role when we’re talking about books. While reading books we basically imagine character, its appearance, situation, personality and other. Reading books is about person’s creativity. Even if two people are reading same book, they imagine it differently, because every person is individual and has his own imagination. Some books have been turned into movies, but unfortunately screen adaptation of the books often does not live up expectations of the audience. As I already said, while we read, we imagine environment where the action takes place. Characters that we imagine come from our creativity and individualism while in the movies or series the director decides what kind of appearance actor will play. Here are some books that have been turned into movies: Hunger games, harry potter, lord of the rings, little women, pride and prejudice, the great Gatsby and others. I personally imagined those books characters, situations and environment differently and when I watched movies I realized my imagination was really different from the movies. Let’s move onto movies.
While we’re watching movies, we don’t use that much imagination, because movie director has already shown us the character and his appearance, but we focus more on visual effects. Many people say that reading books is just a waste of time because watching a movie is so much shorter than reading a book. While watching a movie, you can’t experience the life of another person in 90 minutes. My personal choice is books and I prefer it over movies.
In conclusion, we can’t say which one is better, because everyone has individual choice and opinion. For example some children prefer movies, older people read more books than watch a movie, both of them- books and movies have different ways an ideas to present the story.
Author: Mariam Machitidze
