Energy Movies

Some movies can be categorized as "energy movies." Such movies are generally cheap movies that aim at getting the largest number of low-class viewers who have no aesthetic sense what so ever and cannot appreciate a good movie or perhaps even any work of art. Some movies can be labeled as pure energy movies while others just retain some of the elements and qualities of an energy movie as an attempt to attract a larger audience and not fall into the shadows. Energy movies tend to have three strong and intertwined energy elements: violence (physical power); money and sex.

Violence
Violence is often shown by the bad guys physically hurting the hero or the ones whom the hero cares for. Many scenes of violence in the form of fights taking place between the bad guys and the hero, or people on his side, are shown.

The effect of such scenes is to get the low type of audience glued to the cinema screen and serves as an outlet to their trapped dreams of power and violence.

Money
Money and material belongings of expensive assets with an accompanying luxurious life style are the second element in the energy mix. Often the bad guy is the rich one who has the money while the hero is the one who does not. Many times the hero who might have physical power or just superhuman courage might get rich at the end of the movie after succeeding in concurring the evil of the bad guys.

Once more, money and a luxurious life stile plays on the trapped desires of the low-type audience and magnetizes them using a cheap technique.

Sex
Finally, the third and final element of this devilish mix is sex. After playing on the cravings of the youth or low class workers for violent physical power and money, an energy movie tightens its grip with the third required energy element: sex.

Combining Elements
Energy movies are created by mixing these three elements in different proportions. Often two of the elements are also intertwined together to produce an even stronger effect. For instance violence and sex can be combined in a single act in once scene (rape). Also money and sex may be combined in a single scene (prostitution).

Non-Energy Movies
Movies could be put on a continuum with the purely energy ones on one side and the energy-clean ones on the other. Many movies though lie somewhere in between. Some good movies even make use of energy elements either to hide their main message or in order just not to loose audience. Cinema is the place where energy movies often appear. Their stories are not inspiring. They usually have no real art in them, just playing on the base desires and dreams of ordinary people.

A New Element
The comic element is not really a new one in movies for it has been there in movies all along. What's new is that the comic element has taken a much larger place now. The comic element can be inserted in all kinds of movies, even energy ones. This element does not necessarily appear in comedy movies only. Some movies which have comic elements in them, and others which are purely comedy movies, are actually political or social reform movies in disguise.

Enjoy the Movie
From now on, whenever you are watching a movie try to keep in mind the energy elements. See if what you're watching is a purely energy movie with no real value in it. Look deeply inside the movie. It might have strong but hidden political or social messages in it and is using comedy or some of the energy elements to conceal its true nature. Good movies often try to give you a message, a message that is different from what you have been taught at school and what you are being told by the media. That would be the movie you'll really enjoy and watch again and again.