The government
should control the amount of violence in films and on television in order to
decrease the violent crimes in society. In what extent do you agree or
disagree?
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| Ielts Essay - Media and Crime |
The content being aired on
television and shown in movies has always been under a critical scanner of
various law enforcement agencies and critics across the world. A deep argument rages
over whether there is any close link between rising crime and violence being
shown on the audio-visual media.
Content being aired on
audio-visual media, be it cinema or television soaps, surely has an impact on
the viewers. Sadistic scenes on media have become increasingly graphic and often
inspire the most susceptible sections of the society, especially the juveniles
and the ones with criminal tendencies, as they try to emulate the sensationalized
hateful scenes, they are served on media. Regulating the content would surely
bring around a fall in graph of crime, and improve the situation to some
extent.
Moreover, the scenes and news
of violence seems to trigger innate animal instincts in the people, and
watching visuals, that portray use of brute force or depiction of savagery,
does little to help to keep those instincts dormant. People fear that such
scenes and plots inspire viewers to react the way in which the characters,
being featured, behave. The fiction seems to turn into a reality for such
people. Curtailing such content would surely help in such a case.
However, as various surveys
prove, there is not a slightest of connections between the rising violence and
sadistic content being shown on media. Whatever is directed and produced for
cinema and television is inspired by real life incidents, and aims to inform
people of the evils. This content, in no way, tends to incite violence and
crime.
To sum up, I personally feel,
controversies aside, graphic depiction of violence on entertainment media has
not connection with crime and thus there is no need to control such content.
