Band 5+: The chart below shows the percentage of people in the UK who preferred to watch movies at the cinema and at home between 1997 and 2021. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The chart provides information about the proportion of English people who would rather have watched movies at the cinema than at home in a time window that goes from 1997 to 2021. Overall, the two categories of preference overtook over the years, yielding as quite a symmetrical a distribution of frequencies.

To begin, in 1997, 75% of English people preferred the cinema to their home television when it came to watch a film, thereafter this tendency gradually decreased until 2009. In that year, people considered the movie theatre and watching films on television as equally appetitive. From 2018 2021 to 2021 the proportion of people that used to go more willingly to the cinema proceeded to decline, thus resulting in a quite symmetrical overtaking between the two categories.

Notably, it was only in 2012 that the home television outperformed the movies. Conversely, until 2009, the proportion of people preferring to watch films at home has not exceeded 50%. Ultimately, relative to 1997, people preferring the cinema in 2021 fell by 40%.