Film vs. Literature

Film vs. Literature. I know this is a pretty broad topic. Which is good? Film or Literature? I have always been a big fan of film because with film, you can create visual scenes which can be interpreted into thousand different ways. A single movie can have a year long discussion or even a single commercial can have a lot of different meanings. Depending on each person’s perspective, film can be a total different thing. I know that with literature, you can also express feelings and interact with the reader. I know that a single book can have a big discussion and can be interpreted differently according to different perspectives. But I believe that actually seeing what’s going on is easier and faster to understand than to read the passage and try to think of the passage as a picture. Basically, I believe that films can be easier to interact with the audience with more thorough understanding because it just gives you the whole visual image and explains in the film the characters, conflicts, and settings.

Here is a list of reasons why I think film is much stronger than literature:
• Film is much easier to interact with the audience
• Film sets an image and makes the audience more clear about the topic
• Each person has their own different interpretations about the film
• A whole chapter in literature can be explained with just a few scenes in film
• Film not only contains all the words that each character says in the book, but also the narrative voices of it with a visual image, which is more than literature
• Even you don’t understand the language or the culture, by watching the film, you will be able to understand what they are saying by looking at what they are doing
• Film is just great! :]

Do not be offended by this post. This is just my own opinion :]