Violence

Do films promote violence or is it that violence is such apart of our society that we seemingly can not watch a good film with out a good punch up in it? “Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative.” (From ‘Scream One’)
Fact, people enjoy watching violence. Even children’s films have violence in them, not to such an extreme, and it is usually where the good guy wins, but there is still violence. We have fighting sports such as boxing and wrestling, competitions for violence, karate, judo and so on. Fighting, or so form of violence, plays a huge part in our society thus why should it not be a part of media and film industry.
When a director wants to make a film, he attempts to do it in such away to make the film as realistic as possible, also they want to make the audience feel as though they are part of the film, so why not add something into the film that is such a big thing in society such as violence.
However, it is a fact that violence does seem to have increased more, especially in the youth of society since more and more films have increased in the amount of violence within them. Children attempt to imitate what they have seen in the films, thus if they see violence it is likely that they will attempt to imitate it. However, this maybe down to the responsibility of parents. Films have age ratings now, thus limiting children to what they can watch without the responsibility of a parent. Thus it is the parents responsibility to allow their children to watch what them deem fit.

Therefore can we blame directors of films for such an increase in the amount of violence, even though they place violence in nearly every film in the world.
Society enjoys to watch violence, whether they find it comical or just breath taking, violence sells. Therefore, it would be silly for the directors, film industry, not to take advantage of something that they know is going to sell their product. Violence has been around since the beginning of time, well before films and the media.