What have you learned about a country from watching its movies?

Films can tell us a lot about the country in which they were made. What have you learned about a country from watching its movies? Use specific examples and details to support your response.

I adore watching movies and TV-serials, especially I prefer science fiction. This genre can tell me about philosophical ideas and social relationships in a country where the films were made. For example I had watched a/the movie "V for Vendetta" five years ago. This film describes the life of society at a near future when dictatorship rises up in England. And of course there is one man who fights the government for freedom... so romantic... And finally he gifts["gives"?] freedom to the English people by bombing a royal palace.

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I think the movie contains the idea that freedom is a basic need for people and they must fight for it. This idea was born at the age of the renaissance by progressive philosophers from Europe including authors from England. And V for Vendetta mirrors this idea because nowadays social reform makes a new larger border for personal freedom.

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Anyway, movies with this idea can't exist in an Asian country. All films from Asia which I have watched describe happiness for the collective or family. A person does not matter as much as a community. And if he must break his dreams for the collective he breaks... I respect Asian philosophy but I don't want to live in a society where I must drop out my dreams for the happiness of other people.

Maybe I had made a mistake when I had made conclusions about Asian movies, but if you point out a movie with other ideas about relationships between a person and society I will watch it with plesure and will make a new conclusion.