Art throughout history has had to revolt against some form of force or the other. Cinema, specifically due to its widespread influence and significance is targeted more often than any other medium of artistic expression. People easily get influenced by movies due to their less complicated nature and overt manifestations. The clarity of medium and the pervasiveness of movies is another point that justifies the importance of censorship in cinema. Generally the restrictions that filmmakers have to face are related to sex, violence, religious and communal content. The censor board has to make sure that there is nothing in a movie that can hurt the sensibilities of any section of community. However, in their exercise they should also understand the creative license which every artist is entitled too. Rather than imposing bans irrationally on movies and destroying their story-lines . It would be much better, if censor-boards also took the responsibility of educating the audience and infusing a more tolerant and patient outlook in them. It is high time that the public takes some responsibility and becomes mature in its perception of a film. This way the filmmakers, censor-boards and the public will benefit. After all, it does not always have to be cat and mouse, does it?

Movies are basically made with a sole purpose of entertaining the masses. However, there is a considerable percentage of movies that are made with an objective other than entertainment.  The objective can be social awareness, revelation of a corrupted system, or addressing certain issues that have been sidelined for far too long. Whatever may be the objective or purpose, but it is not entertainment and goes beyond providing people visual pleasure. Some movies that are not made with an intention of social purpose are then made for aesthetic pleasure. These movies are watched with an intellectual insight. Hence, whatever may be the object of the director one thing that is common is the fact all the directors use the medium of visual arts and motion pictures to put across their point and tell a story in the manner it should be told. Directors choose this medium primarily because of the the entertainment factor that is so strongly associated with motion pictures. Therefore, you can take the entertainment out of movies but you cannot take movies out of entertainment!

What we are interested in is not the two-way process of influence and impact but the sole role that movies play in inspiring or molding mass culture. Some movies develop a cult following and are considered as socially transforming. They present an ideology which becomes the popular notion that governs the collective psychology of society. Not only do movies help in spreading a cultural perspective in a nation but also help in dispersing it to other countries and regions. Movies are the best way to spread your cultural roots in foreign countries. Cinema is considered one of the most powerful tools in introducing your culture in a strange land. People get an idea about others through a visual medium that precedes language in understanding. Mass culture is so easily established in a society through cinematic representation because people connect to the medium of movies very readily.

For example, American movies outside America have done greatly well and are successful in making people aware of the American culture. Within America, movies such as Fahrenheit 11, etc. completely turned the political ideologies and affiliations of people. Hence, movies and mass culture go hand in hand. Probably the existence of mass culture among other things is also significantly dependent on movies.