The Psychological Benefits of Watching Movies
How watching movies can actually be good for your psychological wellbeing
It is safe to say that nearly every single person on this planet has at least watched a movie at some point in their life and at least does so on occasions. According to a British study that was conducted for the British Cineworld Expedition Tour, the average person in the UK watches at least 72 films per year which equates to 4,341 films in a British person’s lifetime.
A similar study by a US movie rental company, Redbox, suggests that in comparison to the British study, movie watching is slightly more common among Americans than the British. Their figures found that the average American watches 84 movies per year which equate to roughly 5,000 movies in their lifetime.
However, despite the closure of cinemas all over the world due to the coronavirus pandemic with Britain’s cinema attendance dropping drastically from 176 million in 2019 to 44 million in 2020, more people are taking to streaming movies in their homes. In 2019, the popular US movie streaming company, Netflix, ended the year with 167.09 million paid subscribers and this substantially increased to 203.66 million by the end of 2020, their biggest yearly increase since launching in 2011.
