Film therapy is for human purposes and building relationships with others and nature. There are experts that develop the therapy by television series and movies. film, in general, helps people to disconnect, relax, and have a good time. The benefits for using film for therapy is using scenes or the entire movie allows people to focus on their problems, and fears. Additionally film therapy does not stop there, there are also different tools that is implemented, such as quotes, comments, posters, and visual analyst. Experts considered film to be enormously effective therapy due to various factors, such as intensity, duration, learning, identification, attention, and social features.
Film therapy is quite favorable due to how films help people, to be a better person. The different perspectives of a film, can help creativity by changing the mental schemas and pushing people to be more flexible, creative, and innovative. Watching films can improve personal relationships, such as, a few hours of happiness, sadness, and other emotions. By watching films, can soften the loss, during a heartbreak. It can also improve your strength, when you watch films with different qualities of the characters, helps inspire people to develop strengths. Films, in general, is seen as reflective art due to how it amazes, elevates, and inspires people to become a better person. People can practice film therapy on their own by thinking deeply and writing what they think down their thoughts.
They can watch a film that was suggested by their psychotherapist and talk about it with their therapist or watch it with your friends and talk about it after. Usually there is a main character, that we can connect with emotionally. Because of the identification with that character, we feel as if we are experiencing the events in the film. When we are not drawn to movies featuring characters that we can not “identify” with. We can not find anything of ourselves in these films. Film therapy is a technique that we use in everyday life and in therapy. The films we choose to watch often reveal our psychological needs.
Like when we are feeling down, we may need a romantic comedy to give us hope. When we are anxious, we may re-watch a film that we love. If our life feels monotonous, maybe watch sci-fi films or horror movies. When we have a fight with someone, probably watch films with your favorite actor in it, to lighten the mood. Films can help regulate your emotions. It is perfectly normal to feel emotions, films are like stress relievers instead of us doing something we may regret later on.
“The Story of Us” is a good example of this. The film is about a married couple’s life, that is going backwards in time from the moment they start a trial of separation to their first date. At the beginning, they are a perfect couple. But when, they have children and their responsibilities increase, they both have a difficult time adjusting. Their attempts at peace-making only made things worse. During their break-up process, they realise their mistakes and decide to compromise. Similarly, relationships can only improve when couples become aware of the real reason for their difficulties.
Couples that are having relationship problems can watch this movie, talk about it, and take lessons from it. Even if we do not talk about the films, that we watch, it influences and changes us at an unconscious level. We know that “drifting apart” is one reason why romantic relationships start to fail. The best cure is to spend more time together, even when we don’t feel like it. And one of the easiest ways to do this? Watching a film together. Technology is just the language for understanding, appreciating, and honoring our nature.