‘THE FLASH’ EFFECT

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‘The Flash’ effect

Entertainment plays a significant role in the lives of each individual. Every person has their kind of entertainment which appeals to them and which means a lot to them. It is therefore in regards to this that different people choose different types of entertainment ranging from music, TV programs, movies among others. For this assignment, I have chosen a film- Netflix’s ‘The Flash’ (McMillan, 2019).

Several people have written about the effect of the flash on young people and anyone who watches this Netflix series. Many individuals and researchers consider this form of entertainment to be very addictive. Due to its length, researchers argue that it is not healthy for a person to watch the show for a very long time since it may bring in medical complications. However, on the other side, the series is a superhero series, and therefore anyone who watches the series has a 70% chance of developing some positive regards and view about life. Therefore this means a person who watches the series is likely to change and find good and positive ways to do good for humanity just as the flash does even though he faces many challenges (Bartsch, & Viehoff, 2010).

We can hypothesize that watching the flash for long periods is unhealthy for a person. However, watching the series enables a person to develop good characters and behaviors towards other people and the world.

The methodology used to study how people’s behavior change combined qualitative and quantitative research to determine what a person goes through for them to be gratified or for a specific entertainment and, in this case, a movie series to affect them. The use of questionnaires and interviews for this research is of great importance as the target is those who have watched this series and its effect (Sharma, 2016). The age groupings is that 60% of those interviewed were between 18 years to 35 years while the teenagers accounted for 20% of the research and the rest 20% fell to those above 35 years of age. This is because those between 18 and 35 years are most likely to watch this kind of series (Bartsch & Viehoff, 2010).

The results were that different people have different feelings and conclusions about the series. However, most people have positive feedback that the series has helped them re-develop their humanity in so many different ways (McMillan, 2019). Most of the people state the willingness of the flash to bring out positivity towards the lives of people around him without having to kill those who do wrong is a courageous thing to do since he has the option of killing them but does not kill them because that is a vice and killing makes him a wrong person. Therefore the series, to a very great extent, talks to the people and reminds them of their moral base and compass to follow (Sharma, 2016).

References

Bartsch, A., & Viehoff, R. (2010). The use of media entertainment and emotional gratification. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 5, 2247-2255.

McMillan, D. R. (2019). Superhero TV–Analyzing the Narrative Techniques of the CW’s The Flash (2014-Present) & the Netflix Original Program Daredevil (2015-2018).

Sharma, R. A. (2016). The Netflix effect: Impacts of the streaming model on television storytelling.