“A film has one purpose - to entertain.” Using examples, consider this view.
It is sometimes true that a film has one purpose - to entertain. While entertainment should not be the dominant purpose of a film, unfortunately, in reality, films tend to lean towards the mentioned intent. A film which is defined as a motion picture has been around for centuries. Although films seem to capture real life effortlessly, they are in fact industrial products: the result of complex technological processes and carefully discussed purposes. The primary purpose behind most commercial films, of course, was to make a profit, and any film that wanted to attract and keep an audience had to be appealing and entertaining. On the other hand, educational films are used for education and hence it is a powerful method for educating or indoctrinating citizens. Therefore the purpose of a film largely depends on the genre it belongs to. It would be extremely narrow-minded to insist that a film has only one purpose and that is to entertain.
I agree that the main purpose of films is to entertain. Most of the films that can be seen on the cinemas today have the aims of profit maximisation and the most effective way of doing so is to keep people’s interests, even if they skewed the story. For example, the film 300, a fictionalised retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae is by no means historically accurate. Although there was a battle of Thermopylae and King Leonidas and Xerxes the Great existed, the story did not go down the same manner that had been put onto film by Director Zack Snyder. Another example from 300 is the claim that a Spartan’s rite of passage was to kill a wolf. However, the historically correct answer was a Spartan’s rite of passage was to kill a slave. (Hermot) This movie, it grossed $210,614,939 at the box office. Even if it can get certain amount of facts correct to be relevant to the consumer, films are hardly a reliable source of information as the more dramatic parts...