Essay On Entertainment World

The entertainment world today has so much difference than it was back then, whereby the entertainment industry was wisely used as a rather effective tool in spreading ideas, propagandas, and consciousness towards the audience. We are all very familiar with the idea that entertainment plays a major role in our lives and it has always been able to leave great impacts on us because as we watch, read, or listen, we actually feel the emotions, the vibes, and most importantly, the message that is to be conveyed to us. I think the main reason is that the power of these entertainment tools is their power of grabbing attention and the power of influencing. The reason why I would say so is because back when a country was colonized, Taiwan, for example, or even my home country, Malaysia, not everyone was patriotic, not everyone would join the army because someone else did, and not everyone would fight against the communists or the

Perhaps, it is due to the surroundings and the lives we are living now, that the films and literature produced nowadays have such “low quality” in the sense that the stories are mostly almost the same and very predictable, and the fact that they are not educational anymore. They are truly produced for “entertainment purposes” only or even for “profit purposes”. Unlike now, back then the use of entertainment was so “important” and “great”. The Hsiang-t’u movement and the Taiwanese New Cinema movement were both great ways to bringing consciousness among the Taiwanese, to reminding them of who they really are during the critical time when most of them were influenced by external forces like the Japanese, the Mainland Chinese, and the West. As a Malaysian, I think that Malaysians then also used the same medium, that is through entertainment, to arouse the consciousness among its