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Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? By Eben Harrell / London TIME
In the celluloid world of romantic
comedies, shy but decent men get the girl, arguments set up sweet
reconciliations, and couples separated by tragedy are always reunited through
improbable coincidence. But now researchers are beginning to ask whether the make-believe
world projected in "rom-coms" might actually be preventing true love
in real life.
Last week, researchers at Heriot Watt
University's Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory in Edinburgh, which
studies best practices in relationship counseling, completed a study of 40
Hollywood romantic comedies released between 1995-2005. They found that
problems typically reported by couples in relationship counseling at their
counseling center reflect misconceptions about love and romance depicted
in Hollywood films. (See TIME's Top 10 movies of the year.)
"Relationship counselors often face
common misconceptions in their clients — that if your partner truly loves you
they'd know what you need without you communicating it, that your soul mate
is predestined. We did a rigorous content analysis of romantic comedies and
found that the same issues were being portrayed in these films," the
university's Dr Bjarne Holmes says.
The fact that Hollywood sells us an
enhanced version of romance should come as no surprise, of course. But does
that portrayal reflect a pre-existing expectation that film buffs hold or does
it instill it? As part of their research, Dr Holmes' team had around 130
student volunteers watch the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity, while another
group of the same size watched a David Lynch drama. Viewers of the romantic
comedy were found to be more likely to believe in fate and destiny. It was
a small study confined to one region, but, Dr Holmes argues, "it does give
us some indication of [the effects of romantic comedies]."
Mary-Lou Galician, Head of Media Analysis
and Criticism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass
Communication at Arizona State University, whose research in the 1990s found
similar results to Holmes' study, says uncovering conscious and subconscious
romantic motivation is a difficult process, and the role of movies is
uncertain. She points to the vexing debate over the effects of violent
movies, which some researchers argue encourage aggression, while
"others argue just as persuasively that [simulated violence] provides a
safe release for human aggression." (See pictures of couples in love.)
Still, Galician — who blames mass media
portrayals of romance for the failure of her own early relationships — advises
people to be cautious about watching too many romantic comedies, and remain
aware that such movies might cause problems in their own relationships. "If
there were suggestions something was dangerous for you, even if the results
were in small numbers, it might not be a bad idea to be cautious," she
says.
Q:
Do you think that Romantic Movies Are Bad
or good for us?
Do you agree that watching too many
romantic comedies might cause problems in relationships?
This writer said “Viewers of the romantic
comedy were found to be more likely to believe in fate and destiny”
So do you believe in fate and destiny?
Do you think that your soul mate is predestined?
What do you think about Hollywood movies?
How to find “true love “in real life?
What are the effects of violent movies?
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