What’s your verdicts on this ?

I was listening to this Orthodox priest on TikTok . He’s a good priest .
He says that listening to music and watching movies are evil .
What do you think ?
Imagine telling someone give up music that’s dedicated all there lives to it and to tell them stop listening to music .
You could drive them into the river by saying that . He also thinks Hollywood is evil and that both music and movies if your listening to or watching that it’s a hypnosis to the sub conscious mind and that you have no control over your mind if you watch or listen to music or movies .
Music and movies is all I have left .
I gave up a lot of things in my life and then when I hear this it’s to deep altoghter .
What’s your view on this

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TRLGhere4 · 13-15, F

As an Orthodox Christian, this is a question you need to be cautious about. While there ARE pretty many bad and satanic music and movie industries, there are many good ones aswell. Music and movies driving you away from God is really possible. However, this isn't a case for everything. There are some really good songs and music that aren't satanic or associated with evil. Again, there are still some good songs and movies, and they don't even have to be Christian.
Sometimes secular music and movies could have an effect on us and our mindset, and when approaching these, we should still be careful of our choices. Jesus does say that when becoming Christians, there are wordly things we should sacrifice. Secular/demonic music is one of those. Again, some songs aren't like this, but aren't Christian either. I think that the priest might've talked about secular/demonic songs and movies anyways. Again, there are sacrifices like letting off of worldly things order to get close to God. In this case, it's stopping to listen to secular and demonic things in these forms. Still, as I already said, there a lot of songs that aren't associated with these themes. These songs, again, don't have to Christian. So I think that this is what the priest was talking about. It's not stopping to listen to music forever, there are a lot of songs for worshipping and Churches itself, so it can't mean no listening to music at all
I hope that you are able to understand this, I'm so sorry if you can't understand something
Feel free to ask whatever, both about this if you didn't understand, of anything else
I hope this helped : )