Do Movies really reflect the prevailing socio-economic situation of the country

I feel the 3-Idiots the first Hindi movie I had seen in the last 30 years is clearly what I used to see before that. It somwhat depicts the general nature of academia prevalent in my student days. Bookworms, thinking heads, bungled projects, mental problems, socialization etc; are depicted with other entetainement which were the true case when I was a student in India.

What probably it didn't suggest is solutions or if solutions were given it was too difficult for someone to correllate the structure of the science involved in changing the situation of the Academia. I feel it was realy entertaining reliving our younger days.

Yes I belive that Movies do reflect the socio-economic condition of its target audience from Mother India where te main concern was to support two square meals of a day reflecting situation at that point in time to the the block buster Sholay depicting the dacoit problem till the present era where the lead actor has every thing and suffers from issues like extra marital affairs, which in earlier time one could not have afford both socially and economically.

In holywood too this trend can be seen where most of the movies [ Rocky series] showed Americans being victorious over the Russians, till the present day which show saving the marriage which is a big concern in US.

I think Movies do reflect the social & economic condition of the society.