Censorship in Movies & Our Culture

I've read all of these and the two common things I see are these: 1- There are a lot of bad movies and they can/will/are affecting our youth! 2- The censorship board is not doing anything about it.

Yes, there are A LOT of movies out there that are vulgar, profane and just inappropriate for children. But you know what? You're "small children" are NOT BEING FORCED TO WATCH THESE! How about we stop blaming our problems on other people? Hitler's idea didn't end well for anyone.

If you want my opinion into the "final solution to 'cleaning up our youth'" then here it is:.

It's a simple thing called PARENTING!.

Maybe you have 2 to 10 or more jobs and have no time, well who's fault is that? Maybe it's time to stop watching your children from the side lines and take a more active role in their lives. But then again, we are all lazy one way or another, so do what you want. You can keep barking at other people to fix your problems, or you can do something that matters and actually care for your child/children.

Just so you know, I'm a seventeen year old guy who goes to high school. When I was about 6, my mother was a terrible alcoholic and my father died before I could even remember anything. She would let my brother and I watch are rated movies all the time. All through my life I have been exposed to violence, profanity and vulgarity and believe it or not, I'm not some rotten evil teenager who just loves to bully other kids and take advantage of women. I work hard daily to keep up with band, choir, an honors senior English class, a government class, National History Day, Adventures in Supercomputing, a college music class, Harding University Admission applications to the university as well as into an online Bible class with Harding. So you can either continue to be as ignorant as you are and blame everyone else, or you can take some advice from somebody who knows and either make time for your children or take a break from commenting on discussions about how everyone else is the reason your youth is going bad and get involved in your child's life.

P. S. I happened across this discussion while searching for examples of censorship for a satirical speech that I am to do this Monday in my English class and let me just take the time to say thank you very much, this was just what I needed.

Hello Everybody ! I have got few things to say here:

A lot of hard work is involved in making a film. Right from the beginning to the end, the process in itself is very rigorous. What we see on screen is the vision of directors, writers, lyricists, musicians and other artists which is drawn or inspired from their personal experiences. We have to understand that it is because of their direct observation or participation in the events of society, the filmmakers have gained practical knowledge, skill or expertise. Restricting their vision is definitely going to hurt them.

They are trying to depict reality from an artful perspective. We just cannot ignore the fact that murders are taking place, rape is happening, which is very unfortunate. We just cannot ignore the fact that boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife love. We just don't happen to accept the reality because we fear what others have to say, what society has to say. We are shy in the cinemas hall, but most probably an animal inside four walls.

My point Censor Board should keep an eye on the content and restrict releasing which is very derogatory or offensive. But putting a tag in every scene where characters are smoking is not going to change the society. The one who's smoking knows really well the ill effects of it. We are not running out of ads which says "Smoking kills". So why play with the emotions of filmmakers?

Parents understand whether they should take their children to the theater or not. If government is really bothered about society or children getting inspired from a movie, they should better give emphasis to education.

One point being constantly repeated again and again is that if you don't 'censor' film you and and your children might be left in an awkward position, and it would influence badly in your child's psyche.

But why would you take your 10 year child to an 'A' or 'U/A' rate movie? Some of you might be confused, let me clarify, no one wants to abolish the 'RATING' system, only the 'CENSORING' system you know, the process that determines which parts of the movie {or anything} stays].

Just imagine a handful of people, of whom 50% are mere puppets of the government of the time picking out which and which not to watch for a billion people, you included. Don't you find that enraging? Some idiot decides on what and what not you, an 18 year old adult who can think for yourself and are imbued with the power to elect a representative for the country. Taking you for a fool every step of the way.

Sitting there, condescending on you and your brethren, spouting things like, "This would instigate them", "they are too foolish to not smoke when they see a cigarette "[apparently we are dumb monkeys]"Ah, this scene, this scene would arouse him uncontrollably that he might perform some disgusting act in the cinema".

Tell me people, are we really that mindless? That obnoxious? Censorship may primarily be a jab at the filmmakers' pride but it is ultimately a kick to our intelligence and right to expression. It is a tool with which knowledge, emotion and expression is controlled. So with this final thought I end this note, CERTIFICATION IS MANDATORY I agree but CENSORSHIP IS JUST PURE PROPAGANDA.

I am of the opinion that today's cinemas as well as serials in T. V are mainly concentrating on the duels between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, father-in-law and son- in-law, dowry related threats and molestation, suicides followed by this by the bride, and modern ways of murder and thefts and of course 'Holier than thou' attitude by all. These are either copied down by the new generation or they are becoming mentally become a slave to such ideas and emotions that are shown in these movies and serials. The result is that the family loses the peaceful atmosphere in which it was moving and on a fine morning the relations, love affection etc withers away. Who is responsible for that? Who becomes a prey to these inhuman life style? And who earns out of it? Who loses everything in life? PEACE shatters into PIECES in every house.

Certain social immoral guys with the help of certain powerful authorities in the private and government sector amass wealth and fame out of these poor incidences. We, peace loving people, wants to restore a calm, lovable, friendly and sincere life in future. Life is for enjoyment in the natural way and not in a barbaric style. I request Censor board to censor all such misleading and dreadful scenes from films and serials. Remember, that a guy who works the whole day for his bread and when here turns home to enjoy a leisurely hours, he is been welcomed by these types of nasty vulgar dreadful cinemas and serials.

In my view, there is no need to censorship in movies & our culture. Present time India is a developing country and Indian cinema is play a very important role in human life and youngest life. There is only need is that movie should be motivated by good story and avoid the religion part of society. Parents impart the good knowledge his children regarding good society and control the children in his childhood. I know that all parent worried about his children about his family but this not the solution to censor the movie. The only solution is know give the good knowledge and tell him about good company. The only thing if required that is the supervision of movie by Indian sensor board before releasing and publics the show. Board should be remove all untrusted (porn) seen and religion violated seen, terrorist support activities, those seen give the bad effect on youngster. These clip should be banned or remove from the movie. Always they show the goodness of society and Show the Indian talent on screen.

But in Last few year, we can see that Indian sensor board give the permission to many religious picture and they cause violation in society because the insulting the religion of society but our sensor board give the green flag. The only thing is required that is our govt take initiative on this topic and guide the Censored board as per democratic nature.

Come on people, are you living in ancient Indus Valley Civilization? Does some censor board know us better than our own self? Can we not choose what's going to harm us? Do we need any external agency to check what we watch?

My point here is, the sensor can very well warn us about the contents of any movie but has no right to mess around with somebody's hard work. The person is not dumb if he's making a movie or a documentary. He has some sort of practical knowledge and experience.

Secondly, we cannot rule out that the so-called "bad things" shown in the piece are not alien, they exist in our own society.

Thirdly, You can't tell me what to watch until I am not offending someone. The person by making his creation public has given me his consent to view it, so no third person has the right to mess around.

Fourthly, will we ourselves not be a hypocrite if we support these people? On one hand we are ready to beat a person to pulp on roads, but on the other hand, we cannot bear violence on screen. What harm has the poor X-Men done to you?!

Fifthly, our main concern is children. Do you think its hard to find an uncensored clipping on the internet? You get my point!

Ultimately, my point is that we don't need a sensor.

Good evening friends.

I have read everyone's point. Now I want to put my views in front of you all.

According to me cinemas are that mirror which shines and shows the image of the society. Cinemas and television affect all the age group of people whether it is children, youth or the old people. Children and youth learn a lot from the television and cinemas.

My point is if the television and the cinemas affect a lot to children and the youth than we every parent would want good contents to be shown on television and in cinemas as they are the mode of entertainment. So there should be something or some systems which can prevent ill contents to be broadcasted in cinemas.

So I strongly believe that there should be censor board to filter all the ill contents to save the innocence of the child and to stop our youth from being provocated.

Now if I'll contents are shown or allowed to be shown without any restriction it will affect our culture adversely.

So I want to conclude that there should be a censor board to filter the ill contents and to save the innocence of children and youth who are the future of the country.

Thank you.

I think the censor board is actually doing a great job by cutting the scenes which should not be shown to the public. We can't blame the censor board for not cutting certain scenes which you think is vulgar because the censor board tells the film maker to cut only those scenes which are not required for the current generation. We can never compare the type of films which were made earlier and now because of the changing trend and technology.

And considering that the censor board has cut some scenes, or given an A certificate to a particular film, what's the guarantee that the younger generation won't see those scenes? And if they see those and had certain impact on them then who has to be blamed?

Film are meant to be for entertainment. So its the job of both censor board as well as parents. Censor board will do their work as usual but parents should also take care that these films are not to be seen by the youngsters and care should be taken that their minds are not affected by whatever they have shown in the film.

Thank you.

Hello everyone.

I am assuming from my point of view that most of these opinions come from middle-aged men and women who are overprotective of their beloved sons and daughters. I m myself in my early 20s right now and I think our censor board is really overdoing it. What I m saying is what is the point of watching a movie in the theater if we are not gonna see half of it. We can wait a few months to get a rip off from the internet. Sometimes the censoring destroys the continuity of the story, destroys the humour and several other things. I really don't believe a person (let it be a late teen) who watch an A rated film gonna have his mind completely altered to negative mentality. There is a thing called porn if you are worried about nudity and a thing called GTA if you're gonna puke on seeing a person head blown off by a shotgun. I just elaborated on the reality of the situation happening around us right now, censoring a few minutes of a film is never gonna change that. Each one of us gets to decide what we should become.

Hello friends,

I totally agree with the point mentioned here about the censorship in movies, I think censorship is the right thing which can be done to make movies better. It restrict the movies in some areas so that the producer can not misuse it.

But I am shocked also after seeing the old movies and new movies. There is a lot difference, like before there used to be no vulgar scenes at all or at very low extent but nowadays its been common. It can be seen in every movie. Our culture is being affected because of these things as the people are getting attracted towards this fake cinematic effects shown in movies. These are mere the attractions and also the producer adds some spices to it by adding adult content to it.

So I think censor board may be blamed for all these things, if they have not allowed a single movie containing such vulgar scenes then it might not have been the choice of the filmmakers. And public also started demanding all these so its totally affecting our culture.