Topic Reading fiction vs watching movies Which one is more pleasant, reading fiction or watching movies? Since people`s habits and interest differ, they may never agree on above issue Personally, I enjoy watching movies very much, and the magic and spectacular world movies bring to me adds some vivid colors in my life To begin with, watching movies are considerably easier than reading novels As an international student who is in Canada and whose native language is not English, I will not choose reading novels as my entertainment (although I have to make every effort to pass the literature course and finish five horrible novels in a term) When I came to Canada one year ago, I bought some popular novels such as Star War and Harry Potter, but I only read several pages till now There are so many difficult words I have to look up and finally I gave up In contrast, movie is much easier to understand Even if the characters` words sometimes confuse me, I can get some clues from the picture In addition, movies can provide us with visual images as well as sound In friction, we often read some sentences describing a girl`s beauty, but we really have a picture of the girl`s appearance in our mind? No The only thing the author can guarantee is that the girl is terribly good-looking However, with the help of movies, the beauty of that girl is visualized and we can get a concrete view about this character Similarly, a movie`s words and songs also attract us, but we cannot expect any harmonious sounds from a novel In all, the invention of movies is a milestone in the entertainment history From the attacking of aliens to the sinking of Titanic, from a fierce battle in the ancient Rome to a huge space ship traveling in the universe, movies have brought numerous vivid scenes in front of audience all around the world Last but not least, it is enjoyable to listen to songs in movies In order to attract more audience, film companies always make a great effort to produce tuneful music in their movies The power of songs in movies is amazing After several decades, people may forget the content of the movie, but they are still familiar with the movie`s music, which recall them to the sweet memory of former days About one month ago, I watched the Sound of Music from a Canadian TV channel When I heard the classic music I found the feeling of my childhood To summarize, from my point of view, watching movies is more enjoyable than reading fiction If there are a best-selling novel and an Oscar-winning movie DVD in front of me, I will definitely choose the DVD