Question

how does contemporary cinema help us in understanding the pre-modern past ? Present your analysis on any film pertaining to a historical personage or period ?

Answer 1

we can come to know the lifestyle of people in the past...and also about the rulers who had ruled our world in the past.

# it is well known fact the human mind tends to understand things,better than hearing or listening that particula information.
# hence visual matter[cinema] helps us to uderstand it betterly and particularly about the history or a famous person in the cinemas.
# the cinema is only taken from the real life to get understand about our mother nation.
# one can take example of sreerama rajyam to get understand about the ethics of ramayana.

Answer 2

As it is said often cinema is the reflection of the society! So naturally it helps us to understand the social and cultural structure of pre-modern past.
For example, Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator tells us a great deal about dictatorship era of Adolf Hitler.