What Movies Bring Us
Since they were invented in 1888 after a great creation named chronophotographe, movies have walked along with human beings through centuries. They witness and record the changes in every civilization, and interact with people’s life at the same time. These features of movies make them more than entertainment; movies inspire people to think about the history, to express concerns over public issues, and to understand themselves.
Movies are memories of the history of humanity that shows images of the world in different periods and different civilizations. One of the most impressive records is Audrey Hepburn’s pure, lovely and elegant imagery in Roman Holiday (1953, directed by William Wyler). Her style of dress and hair in the movie became a timeless symbol of elegance and fashion all across the globe, and the popularity of the movie implied people’s pursuit of simplicity, happiness and the sense of obligation in the postwar period. In the same year,......
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