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Watching movies or reading books has become a popular way of entertainment and relaxation in the contemporary society. Then appears a controversy whether reading books prior watching movies is a better choice than watching movies in advance. From my perspective, watching movies ahead of reading books is a wiser choice, which would be demonstrated by my following reasons and examples.
Firstly, watching movies can lead audiences to gain a broader and more insightful understanding of the book. To specify, most filmmakers would choose to film most appealing and spectacular plots from the book to reveal the important lessons the author attempts to convey. For instance, by watching the movie of Pursuit of Happiness, all audiences would be soon aware of how the lead character chooses to live with his life setbacks, including the failure of marriage and the decline of his business. Then, an overall understanding of the movie would make audiences capable of empathizing with the lead character's sentimental fluctuation and learning the important life lessons, which are primarily purposed at telling all readers that life does not always go as smoothly as we expect and we should harbor a positive and optimistic life attitude to bypass and vanquish those obstacles, expressed by the author in the book. Obviously, watching movies is extricably associated with the better understanding of books, especially those abstruse genres that are filled with various underlying and indiscernible plots.
Secondly, watching movies can aid us to reduce a lot of time on reading books. The more intense social competition becomes, the faster life rhythm tends to be. As a consequence, the time left for chewing over a book is limited. Thus, watching movies can provide us with an efficient alternative to approach those high-quality and intellectually demanding books, especially those complicated literature works composed by ancient authors, so that we won’t spend too much time meditating over how the book is developed and what kind of complicated relationship among those characters built by the author. For instance, Romance of Three Kingdoms is a noteworthily famous book telling a period of history in China during which a number of heroes exerted their talents and left unaccountable classical anecdotes, such as a delicate tactic to fake an attack by sending warships loaded with straw soldiers to obtain arrows, for offsprings. However, the original edition and even the translated version would consume us lots of time that hardly can we afford given daily onerous academic or professional assignments. Also, another Chinese Mythology named the Journey to West is imprinted deeply in almost every child’s mind since there have been many versions of movies and TV programs depicting the legendary and mythical stories of Sun Wukong, a monkey with super power to protect his master during the pilgrimage to India. Watching the movie would only cost us less than hours contrary to understanding books that would at least consume us months. Thus, watching movies or even TV programs becomes an ideal option to decrease the time cost to fully understand the book.

Admittedly, for some people, reading books can offer us a closer access to the author since the original plots won’t be rectified to satisfy audiences’ tastes or interests. For instance, in some movies, the filmmaker will add or change some original stories with a pure purpose of impressing audiences. However, reading books, for most of us, is just to diversify our leisure lifestyle and seldom would we be able or willing to verify the authenticity of the story.
In a word, watching movies ahead of reading books can be a more practical and appropriate way for current citizens either to gain an overall picture of the book or reduce the time consumed on grasping the gist and details in the book.