Monday, 13 January 2014

Forna's view of censorship

Forna is for media regulation and wants and believes that a large amount of harmful films that have or are being screened should have had a higher censorship. Although she believes in freedom of expresion's importance to creativity and society, she believes if that right threatens the freedom of other's 'then it can't be an absolute right'. She believes words and images have a huge capacity for harm. She uses examples of racism and glorifying rape culture from the films Romper Stomper and Straw, she argues that scenes like this repeated often enough start to destroy those barriers' (moral/society-influenced barriers) that stops man from acting on 'his own personal inhibitions'. She backs up her argument of censorship on media representation of extreme racism by stating that the Race Relations Act extends to film, yet the BBFC has passed uncut racist themed work. Forna concludes her essay explaining why she believes pro-censorship opinions are often unpopular, she links it with a human denial 'in recognising the beast within us all' that we should be 'setting a framework for human decency', I think this is a valid point there is a certain optimism surrounding how easily humans are influenced by the media but it is fair to assume that although watching Natural Born Killers repetitively may not make you want to shoot someone,  but are you sure about everyone else?

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