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/^t/Less serious, yet still disturbing, is the affect of soap-operas, mainly on elderly people who, watching the slight representation of existence carrying inconsiderable or none psychological truth and realistic reference, become addicted to and emotionally involved in them, thus approaching the characters and events as part of their own life. Both types of films prove a significant impact on human minds displayed by lessening distance to fictitious matter and apparently blending it with reality.