How movies affects the perception of women in relationships
The movies today, range from action, drama, family and the most prominent one ROMANCE.
Over the decade directors have focused mainly on portraying romance in Nigerian/African setting with a little Hollywood inspiration .
In most Nigerian movies especially the romantic ones, it is sometimes expected that the man in the relationship spends more on his woman and it also portrays the fact that without money the woman will not be comfortable in a relationship. This has affected the mentality of it's viewers especially the female ones, who now believe that because a girl has issues with her boyfriend because of his financial constraint most girls just believe that the financial status of the boyfriend determines the success of the relationship.
I met with some ladies who shared their views on it affects relationships, one of them Joanna(not her real name) is of the opinion that "Nolly wood movies have both positive and negative effects depending on the storyline and the message they try to pass to the audience, It is positive when it encourages couples to stick together and work out their relationship during difficulties and hard times e.g poverty, sickness , financial insecurities , infidelity and family factor where the family do not approve the relationship but still dey decide to stay together these are some of the positive notions, while it is negative when they would want their relationship to be like that which they have seen on T.V failing to realise that they are sometimes fictional and false storyline line which do not happen in reality so when one partner fails to behave the way he or she expect according to what they have seen it causes a strain in the relationship.
So I think movies affect relationships both positively and negatively and I think couples should work more on themselves instead of setting standards based on movies.
Most people (i am also a victim), tend to expect everything they watch in a movie to actually happen in reality but that can't be the case these movie are just make believe and things are not perfect in the world.
Let me know what you think.