180. Why movies are so popular all over the world?

One of the most popular pastimes today is movie-going. With what started as moving-picture shows has dramatically developed into an industry that spends millions upon millions of dollars while still turning a gigantic profit.

Movies are so popular because they are the most fascinating and easiest escape means from increasing pressure, which comes from family, school, working place, society, and so many other directions. Combined with acoustic and visual effect, movies are definitely more appealing for audiences who have exhausted themselves in the real world than are those printed novels. It must have been much easier to see a movie than to read a novel, since all the audience should do is simply to sit there in a soft chair in the dark about 150 minutes. Captured, involved, the audience in a movie theater will forget everything but the story in action on the screen.

Movies have magic power to let people immerse themselves in fiction. The point is that almost everyone long for the power of snapping his/her fingers and seeing his/her wishes and dreams instantly granted. Everyone long for eternity of love, many idealize about it but now in the theater it's time to"feel" it. Every move the character makes, every breath the character takes, all seem to happen around, and clearly sensible. On the screen, no entire life needed, movies illustrate all aspects of love we can imagine: all aspects of love, from the mushy warm and fuzzy feelings we feel with our children and companion animals, to platonic love we have with friends and acquaintances, to the romantic soul mate kind of love, to the agape kind of unconditional love, it's the full gamut. Dramas are created in order for us to play out different sides of ourselves.

In short, movies are so popular because many can escape into the world of fantasy and live vicariously through the characters and in doing so, work out different feelings and emotions that they may not have the opportunity to do in their "normal" lives.

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180. 电影缘何在全球如此受欢迎？

当今最受欢迎的消遣方式之一是看电影。以移动画面表演起步的电影已经极大程度地发展为一种工业，这种工业耗费美金无数，并能转变为巨大的收益。

电影之所以如此受欢迎，是因为它是一种供人们逃避不断增加的压力的最富娱乐性而又最简便的方式，这些压力来自家庭、学校、工作单位、社会和其他许多方面。对于那些在现实世界中精疲力尽的观众来说，集合了声音和视觉效果的电影比起印刷的小说确实具有更大的魅力。看一部电影绝对要比读一本小说容易，因为观众所要做的只是简单地坐在软软的椅子上，在黑暗里看上150分钟。在电影院中，观众被电影吸引并融入其中，除了屏幕上闪动的故事，他们会忘记一切。

电影拥有能让人沉浸于虚构的故事中的魔力。几乎每个人都渴望拥有一种力量，这力量能让你在弹指之间看到自己的愿望和梦想得到实现。每个人都渴望永恒的爱情，而很多人都只是将其做为理想，可是只要是在电影院，就可以切身“体验”这理想了。角色的一举一动和每一次呼吸，这一切看起来都正在我们周围发生着，并且还能够清晰地感觉到。屏幕上并不需要整个生命过程，电影诠释着我们所能想象的爱情的方方面面：这方方面面有我们从孩子们和动物伴侣那里感受到的温存和烦扰，有我们与朋友和熟人之间的柏拉图式的精神爱恋，有与心灵伴侣浪漫的爱恋，也有教友之间无私的情感，所有一切都在其中。戏剧被创造出来的目的就是要让我们去演绎出我们自身的不同方面。

Word List

• pastime ［ˈpæstaim］ n. 娱乐消遣方式
• immerse ［iˈmə:s］ v. 沉浸于
• dramatically ［drəˈmætikəli］ adv. 极度地
• long for 渴望
• gigantic ［dʒaiˈgæntik］ adj. 巨大的
• eternity ［iˈtə:niti］ n. 永恒
• fascinating ［ˈfæsəˌneitiŋ］ adj. 令人着迷的
• sensible ［ˈsensəbəl］ adj. 能感觉的
• illustrate ［ˈiləˌstreit］ v. 诠释说明
• acoustic ［əˈku:stik］ adj. 声音的
• mushy ［ˈmʌʃi］ adj. 多情的
• appealing ［əˈpi:liŋ］ adj. 吸引人的
• fuzzy ［ˈfʌzi］ adj. 烦乱的
• exhaust ［igˈzɔ:st］ v. （使）精疲力竭
• acquaintance ［əˈkweintəns］ n. 相识的人
• capture ［ˈkæptʃə］ v. 俘获
• agape ［ˈægəpi:］ n. 兄弟情谊
• involve ［inˈva:lv］ v. 陷入
• work out 产生出