Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Christian Influence on our Media
The Bible/ Christianity gives no age of consent or deals with child molesting, but it does address homosexuality. Maybe this is why child rape is permitted in movies, yet Independent films featuring homosexual acts comparable to heterosexual counterparts tend to get the dreaded NC-17 rating.
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A movie that includes a violent rape scene with 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning as the victim has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and even though published reports have quoted a prosecutor saying there were no child pornography laws broken, there still remain big questions, according to experts.
"Right away, I will tell you: 12-year-old Dakota Fanning plays a girl who endures a graphically suggested rape. If that's not enough, she is also filmed sleeping dreamily while a half dozen real snakes slither all over her," wrote Fox News' Roger Friedman in his review of the film.
"The rape scene, no matter how it's spun, is disturbing and unsettling in fictional terms. In real life, though, it's creepier to think that Dakota's parents considered this a scene that was appropriate for their daughter," he wrote.
Sundance Film Festival: Child Rape, Bestiality and Politics on Display
January 22, 2007 05:59 PM EST
by Jim Kouri - During the much ballyhooed Sundance Film Festival, the event's founder actor/director Robert Redford demanded an apology from President Bush regarding the war in Iraq.
Some observers believe Redford is attempting to divert attention away from some of the films being run during the well-attended festival.
According to reports, child actress Dakota Fanning ("War of the World's) is shown being brutally raped in one motion picture.
The festival is also premiering a documentary about men who have sex with horses.
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
This FIlm is Not Yet Rated
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its ... all » effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released into select theatres on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the film's producer, aired the film later that autumn.
The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content": scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not rated.
The film discusses disparities the filmmaker sees in ratings and feedback: between Hollywood and independent films, between gay and straight sexual situations, and between violence and sexual content.
I have noticed a new trend in movies where children are filmed in adult situations (language, sexuality, violence). I wonder what the future will be, if they increase this incrementally to achieve new "shock value" the same way they do with violence.
The worst I have seen so far is The Girl Next Door. Its true story about a girl who is imprisoned, tortured, raped, and murdered by a woman and her children who she is staying with. The girl who plays the victim is not underage, but appears to be underage rather convincingly. There is a scene where the woman allows her children to rape the young girl while they all watch (and then tortures her with a blowtorch afterwards). Yeah, the movie is trying to portray the horror of the true story, but recreating it with children is just about as horrible. Supposedly they filmed all the scenes where the girl is naked without the children, and added them in separately.
There is much harsh language in the children's scripts (f-words spoken by kids under 10 and such), which is a bit unsettling, such as "mommy, can I f**k her next?", spoken by a young boy who is watching the rape. I'm not talking about older teens either (such as the American Pie movies); the boy appeared to be 10 or younger.
Don't get me wrong, I am no Mary White House but I watched the film, This Movie has not been rated Yet.
It shows there is something very wrong with the rating system.
I still find some things inappropriate when I am watching TV with my family and younger people, its never language but the type of scenes or violence towards women or children.
Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:42 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Anyone else remember watching Little House on the Prairie as children? Season 7, with a rapist in a clown mask who dragged Silvie (a very hot gal) into the woods and raped her? Being turned on, then having it associated with violence to a child growing up under strict physical discipline could mess with a mind. Educating children about predators is one thing, but arousing them while doing it is another.
Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:52 pm
postcardsfrompalestine
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1737 Location: It means good luck - a chinese symbol
First Problem
ShadowWorks wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I am no Mary White House but I watched the film, This Movie has not been rated Yet.
It shows there is something very wrong with the rating system.
I still find some things inappropriate when I am watching TV with my family and younger people, its never language but the type of scenes or violence towards women or children.
first problem is watching TV, because even if you can explain to your children what is going on, you will still have the new norm ingrained into your head.
Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:23 pm
alexclaton
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 817 Location: Hell on earth
Re: First Problem
postcardsfrompalestine wrote:
ShadowWorks wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I am no Mary White House but I watched the film, This Movie has not been rated Yet.
It shows there is something very wrong with the rating system.
I still find some things inappropriate when I am watching TV with my family and younger people, its never language but the type of scenes or violence towards women or children.
first problem is watching TV, because even if you can explain to your children what is going on, you will still have the new norm ingrained into your head.
yep, best bet is to stop watching tv all together... as much as i used to watch tv i never get the urge to watch it again, i dont miss it and im happy i dont watch it anymore... frees up so much more free time for other things
