Effect of Foreign Films on Youths Moral Conduct Especially Students from the Undergraduate Level-A Exploratory Study at USTC, Bangladesh

Abstract

Films are the source of spreading the messages, attributes to the exchanging the ideas in a different way, and making the impact on our behavior, attitude and moral conduct. In the 21st century, people are surrounded by technology. Everyone is being smart day by day to access to any source. We can hardly find anyone who didn’t watch movies or films. In Bangladesh, people watches mostly Bengali, Indian, Tamilian, English, and nowadays Korean, Chinese movies and films. And today we can access to any foreign films through YouTube, Google, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, etc. Teenagers and youths of our country are mostly getting influenced by English, Korean, Chinese, Tamilian, and also somewhat Iranian films and movies. In my personal observation, I can see the hot market of unrealistic but probable situational films among the audiences of foreign films. The area of our inquiry and interest field is about: the effect of foreign films on the first year students of undergraduate level, more specifically at Department of English in ‘University of Science and Technology Chittagong’. This area of study especially about the behavioral and moral impact on the students made us curious for the further investigation. Fascinating part, students’ opinions, ideas and experiences regarding the foreign films are given importance in order to get a clear idea of the effect of foreign films in changing the moral conduct. Moreover, the area of study is comparatively new from the perspective of Bangladeshi tertiary level study and the scope of further research will certainly be necessary and appreciable.