writing homework

as i mentioned in the last blog, i will post my writing homework here.

The task is to write the following topic:

Creative artists should always be given the freedom to express their own ideas (in words, pictures, music or film) in whichever way they wish. There should be no government restrictions on what they do.

To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Here is my writing:

Democracy and liberalism has touched many of life aspect, including arts. Most artists expect they will no longer dependent to or interfered by government rules on creating their own creativity. In this essay I intend to discuss my point of views to this matter.

I always believe that if someone is given a chance to express their own ideas, it will lead to a new thingy or so-called invention. In music history, rap is considered as a big breakthrough. Eminem, an American white rapper in one of his interview, once said that rap was born as a freedom form of music which you can see from the lyrics. Film also does have an invention of its own. I refer to the animation film. Some producers or directors use this kind of film to show a different angle in which they cannot find if they cast the real actor or actress. Beowulf is a good example. In this film, you can see much nudity. If this is to performed by an actor or actress, there might be a negative talking about them.

Freedom is indeed a good thing, but must not be misused or misplaced, especially in Asian country. If the artis is not careful, it will sure harm himself or even can create a chaos in society. For such case, i agree that government will have to interfere. In my country, Indonesia, sex is still a taboo, let alone using sex as novel topics, it would result a controversy. Ayu utami, a young generation novelist had shocked the public in 1998 with her novel called Saman, in which she described the woman genital very clearly. In order to calm down the situation, government had to censor it.

Apart from negative side that can be created, the creativity might give the benefit to the society. People will have more choice in choosing what they like and what they don't. When Singapore government run the Mandarin language policy back in 1970s, others Chinese dialects like hokkian, teochiew, or hakka was banned from public appearance, including film. But since the government gave a green light few years ago, now its citizen can enjoy their local taste of films. For example 881, the first full hokkian made by Singaporean film. Its success in achieving box office has proved it.

As I have discussed before, freedom in creativity is indeed a good thing, and sometimes can give the benefit to people, even might resulting to an invention. But there is still need a government role to ensure the freedom is not misused and misplaced.