ESSAY

These days violence is a big problem in our society. In the newspaper, tv, radio, etc.
always tell us about acts of violence. The question is, should there be a ban on violence in movies?

There are 3 reasons for such a ban. First, in a lot of movies are so much violence and so much blood, for example in Quentin Terentino's "Kill Bill", which cannot be realistic anyway.
A lot of scences in horrormovies are to exaggerated, so a lot of people will have nightmares.
Second, non-violent films are successful, too. Probably because there are so much horrormovies on the market with no background. These films are only brutal and after watching a few of these films, nothing can shock people anymore. So people prefer films with a good story and not films where people will be killed one by one.
Third, a lot of people imitate the murderers in movies, that's a violence theory. For example in "Nightmare on Elmstreet" Freddy Krueger kills a lot of children. In fact US-teenagers like such powerful characters and this has the result that everyone of them loves Freddy Krueger and maybe they will imitate him because of this cause.

In contrast, there are also 3 reasons against a ban on violence in movies.
First, most horrormovies are so unrealistiv that a normal person doesn't copy it. The people know that this is only a movie and they will not run out of the street to kill some people just like in the film before. Second, the majority of people doesn't get violence because of a film. Maybe a violent person watchs horrormovies, but then they were violent before. We should think about what went wrong in the live of a copycat, a character in a brutal movie will only be the catalyst.
Third, we don't turn into a non-violent society just because we don't show violence. Violence is a real part of our live and we shouldn't euphemise it. Violence exists everywhere anyway. No matter if people watch violent films or not.

There shouldn't be a ban on violent film from my point of view, because violence is a part of the human being whether violent movies were showed or not. But it's absolut necessarily to have age restrictions. No child should see to much violence in movies, they could be influenced and parents should project their children from this.