Film festival director about censorship in Singapore

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw00/000424ws.htm

The main gist of the article is how films in Singapore have ratings and how these censorships violate the film producer’s work of art. By censoring the films, viewers will not be able to appreciate the filmmakers original work of art, this can be seen in, "contradiction between government censorship and the artistic freedom” (extracted).
Also, films are a form of art produced by film makers and their forms of art, in a way, represent life and by censoring this, art doesn’t reflect life anymore. “Usually art reflects life but if so much censorship is taking place, then art doesn't reflect life anymore” (extracted)

The Singapore International Film Festival also stated that they will remove censorship so that producers work is not altered. “But the next stage for us, I think, is to have the Film Festival exempted completely from censorship”(extracted).It is also mentioned that those movies which are rated 21 should not be cut anymore as the people who watch these movies are already over 21 and should know better and “take responsibility for what they see”(extracted).

The assumption made by the Singapore International Film Festival and the Singapore Government is that viewers do not want to see things, which through the government’s eyes, are perceived as morally wrong. The government doesn’t realize that the viewers may want to see these things, and that they can handle viewing these things by themselves. The government is assuming that what they are censoring is for the good of their citizens but they don’t realize that at the same time, they are ruining the filmmaker’s work of art.
They are also implying that the citizens are not mature and old enough to take responsibility for what they watch and therefore the government takes the initiative to censor the movies for the public.