I believe that watching foreign films is not a waste of time and energy because they allow the viewer to be exposed to new forms of life, they grant , more often than American films, gives the viewer the opportunity to watch films that are more consistently stimulating and which, quite often, are not made with the primary goal of obtaining the greatest possible profit, resulting in films that are more artistic and realistic. Foreign films expose the viewer to various examples of lives and experiences that cannot be as accurately depicted if the film was not created in the foreign country and spoken in the foreign language. When a film is presented in an original language other than English, generally, the film was created in a foreign country, an exception to this rule being the occasional anomaly of North American films featuring minority cultures using foreign languages ​​and Quebec films. Behind every foreign language is a complete story with information about the origin of the language, how many people speak it, the implications of speaking it, etc. An example of such use of language is the film Whale Rider and although the main language of the film is English. and as the film was made in New Zealand, a predominantly English-speaking country, the film offers an insight into Māori culture. By using the Maori language - a language with approximately 157,000 speakers, almost all of whom live in New Zealand - when released in North America, the film exposed audiences to a dialect they were previously unfamiliar with. probably not. In the film itself, Māori is not the primary language used by the majority of the characters, but it is consistently used by the elderly people in the film in order to highlight the cultural importance of the language. Stranger...... middle of paper ...... sort the characters, then choose several hockey players to represent characters with fewer (if any) lines. These hockey players were chosen because they were much more easily able to portray the physical appearance and abilities of real hockey players, compared to trained actors who would likely bear little resemblance to the depicted hockey players. By committing to realism and raw artistic abilities, foreign film studios are able to make more realistic films that will not only impress viewers visually and aurally, but also be relatable on more fundamental levels, as the film as a whole was created to be as naturally realistic as possible. Natural realism, although not always sought after by moviegoers, is something that all humans are able to identify with and find some interest in, proving that foreign films are not a waste of time..