Blog 16: reviwing CAT # 2

In the article Imitation of film: Here's smoking of you, kid. Nicholas Balakar says that children feel the desire to smoke because of the influence of movies. I agree with him because children tend to repeat actions that will make they feel independent or adult. Also children prefer R-rated movies which contain a lot smoking characters and scenes. And finally the exposure of children in smoking scenes on movies is inducing them to try and stay in that habit.  

Ages most prone to ideas and influences are 10 to 14, is when children are tending to demonstrate to the world that they are completely independent.  And they start getting some attitudes that will make them feel adults such as smoke. This is a bad habit prominent of movies, which attract children attention sometimes with fantastic stories solved for the main character with a violent fight and some other times with cunning of the villain to prepare the attack. Some of these characters has smoking scenes becoming in children mind the perfect thing to imitate and feels like them.

Dr. James D. Sargent, and a professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical school realize studies to 6,522 children about their movies preferences, and the result was that children use to start viewing R-rate movies at about fourth and fifth grade, and that kind of movies use to have various scenes with smokers. Actually the children anxiety to do what is banned for them such as watch that kind of movies is as continuously as the smoking scenes in that ones, for example the movies related with casinos, gangs has a lot smoking scenes and the characters who smoke many times are the leaders and has the ability to fix or win the fight. This is the perfect person to follows as much as possible for children.     

But these problems not only affect viewers. Many R-rated movies have children in their characters, which are directly involved in that environment and are most prone to get addiction against with those who don’t have the possibility directly. The misunderstood of children about what is real and the nearest contact with awesome scenes and characters into the movie, induce them more to follow their actions and attitudes which regularly contain cigarette and smokers. If people wants to create solutions of that problem, movie directors must stay aware of this damage, and think twice at time to decide to include kids in their projects ,and  don't let them live some in appropriated experiences at their short ages.

Our society is walking so difficult ways with the children behaviors and bad habits that we need to start fixing, or at least controlling with activities that can catch children attention, and maybe decrease these sad reality.