film watching part I More people are spending their free time watching movies. Why is this? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Watching movies has become one of the most popular pastimes among both city dwellers and residents in rural areas. I believe it is the intensive promotion and the convenience of watching a film that have attributed the increasing number of film buffs, and both the individual and the film producer benefit from the development of the film industry. A major factor of the popularity of film watching is the promotion of film-watching through the mass media. Many film companies often invest a huge amount of money in launching campaigns for promoting their recently released films. For example, they pay for news reporters and bid for TV commercials, internet pop-up advertisements as well as billboards on the expressway. People are exposed to the information and cannot resist the temptation of advertisements, ending up with paying the tickets for those blockbusters. the rest of the essay is uploaded in another post (https://www.italki.com/notebook/5180790/entry/984723)