inignoct wrote:
] thoughts on this commentary? at what age are you old enough
] to handle the subtleties of a violent presentation? should
] this have been NC-17? Would that keep kids from seeing it?
] *ARE* kids seeing it?

See, this is the thing. I don't really think that this stuff effects kids in the way that adults feel that it does. Could you explain the scene where the guy is charging people to have sex with the coma patients to a child? It would probably make you feel uncomfortable wouldn't it? Thats why you would decide to prevent the kids from seeing it. So YOU wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Could I have watched this movie when I was 12? Yes I think so. Would it have turned me into a murderer? No, I don't think so. Do I think every 12 year old was just like me? No, I don't.

Basically, teach your kids to think critically about things rather then attempting to make them live in a world where critical thinking isn't required and they are supposed to emulate everything that they see. (I think that answer to this problem isn't more common because adults usually don't understand how to think critically, and therefore they cannot teach it.)

] The theater's don't really police their
] patrons very strictly, or at least, they never did when i was
] a kid... i once bought a ticket for an R movie at the under-14
] discount price. I'm not sure it should be up to the theaters
] to do this at all really.

This is the stuff that really burns me. 16 year olds are considered responsible enough to DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE but we're still worried that they might see Terminator??! I DID get turned away from movie theaters when I was in high school, and I thought it was so frustrating and wrong. Can 12 year olds think for themselves? It might be a debate. It depends on the person. Can 16 year olds? Absolutely. There is obviously some immaturity there but that is not the same as saying "this person can't comprehend sex/violence and can't think objectively about it." I want the State, and the christian conservatives, out of my kids head by the time he or she is old enough to drive.

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