MOVIES AND SHOWS AS A TEACHER
Movies and shows teach us all sorts of things: how to aspire, who to fantasize about (suit up like iron man or having a cool shield like captain America), dress, walk into a room (always like Shah Rukh Khan). They teach us who to love and how, as well as the ostensible necessity of sacrificing love along with careers. They also teach us how to take care of our safety along with how to maintain our sanity. There isn’t a causal relationship between viewer behavior and the screen. There doesn’t have to be. Because movies get into our bodies, making us howl and weep, while their narrative and visual patterns, their ideas, and ideologies leave their imprint.
Let’s take the TV series MINDHUNTER for example, the show a true-crime-centric thriller series “Mindhunter” was inspired by the true story of how the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit began studying psychopaths and serial killers in the late 1970s. Mindhunter teaches us that, that we need to create an environment of fluid communication with others so we get the chance to know what they think and how they to maintain them as well as ourselves motivated and also to know what are their thought process and how to maintain one’s sanity. It does not only teach us about how to be careful, but it can also help in user research like the show gives some great tips on how the value of user empathy can be communicated through the organization.
