Movies can be wrong. The Impact of Cinema on the Perception of Stereotypes and Historical Understanding.

There are undoubtedly several meanings that can be attributed to movies, after all it is art. And art involves its creator, collaborators, inspirations and context.It is important to establish that cinema is a collective art, but it is the end product of one man’s vision. A feature film can hardly be made alone. The director has the role of managing the most diverse areas of this process and monitoring and shaping the end result in his or her own way.

Now we have the viewer’s side of the art, us. Each frame can generate the most diverse sensations. Each movie is created precisely for this purpose: to cause us emotions as the narrative of the story develops. It can be with the aim of scaring us with a bad horror film, telling a beautiful fictional story like one of Inger Bergman’s films with deep characters and strong dialogues, or a film that comes across as a shallow comedy and makes us laugh. But I want to talk about subliminal messages. And when I say subliminal, I don’t mean illuminati conspiracy theories. I’m talking about indirect ways of influencing your view of a certain subject by creating a preconception in our minds about stereotypes and, above all, historical concepts.