What Does It Mean To Be Poor

Movies and television have made a more like permanent part in our lives. Barely a day goes without watching a movie, TV series or news broadcast on the TV. In fact one may feel less if they do not have the privilege to watch a TV. Movies and television provides us with contents which affect how we think about different things in real life. The effect may not be easily noticed because it is slow, (Greenfield 17). The content also helps us in shaping our values in the best way or otherwise. Continuous watching of movies and TV programs slowly affects our conception of what it means to be poor and what it means to be male. The effect could be negative or positive.

The script writer of movie and the directors have a certain agenda which the film

Being poor is associated with the levels of income. In some cases the inability to afford basic needs of life is considered as poverty. Movies can change the way we define poverty depending on the discretion of the writer. In some cases, a movie or a TV program can present the poorest person in the cast who we may have otherwise have not thought to be poor. Since movies are designed to thrive in the emotions of the viewer, in most cases viewers will take the side of the less fortunate, (Greenfield 157). In this way a viewer will have their definition of what it means to be poor

This gives the media, movies and televisions, the chance to educate us on what ways to view issues with poverty. Lack of ideologies or having ideas which are invalid could be viewed as poverty depending on how the movies present it. It is a matter of playing with the emotions of the viewer so that they are carried all through the episode. The writer’s definition of poverty is what we are likely to adopt during the movie but it also leaves a small mark inside us which grows as we continue watching more and more movies.

Movies and other television programs may change the way we think about what it means to be poor by playing with our emotions such that it aligns us with a particular character. The things that the poor in the program cannot achieve also forms our description of being poor.

The definition of what it is to be male has also received a great deal of influence from movies and TV programs. Young boys develop the concept of a man form movies and so is the influence over other groups. In most cases, being male is associated with violence, masculinity, financial independence and aggression. Most males are also associated with works that concern the society at large more than those that concern oneself or