A 12!!! NUDITY IS NOT 12 MATERIAL!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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richimorton — 13 years ago(April 15, 2012 05:16 AM)
@ aar809 : Wot ???? Where did you grow up ? When i was a kid i saw my parents & sisters nude all the time . As was I . This is perfectly normal in Europe . I'm assuming you are in the U.S. as only they could be so uptight about such things . WoW you people are messed up !
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gribfritz2 — 12 years ago(November 11, 2013 10:11 PM)
Promiscuous? Some wacko over at Bigthink ranked countries and the US was #22 right on top of France. Then there's also this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090612/Now-Britain-leading-worldpromiscuity.html
I checked out some Rape statistics too. Again, UK fared worse than the US. Although some other European countries had impressive ratings.
Now take everything you said about the USA and replace "in the USA" with "with arabs". Or "with muslims". Or whatever other group that fits. Notice how it's okay to bash the USA but bashing these other groups is seen as an outrage? Please be more polite to the many hard-working and upstanding citizens of the USA that take all the crap idiots like you throw at them for no good reason. Thank you. -
EmmaPopell — 12 years ago(December 22, 2013 06:59 PM)
I completely AGREE, Royalcourtier. America is the only place where womens' breasts, etc. are "nasty" and not beautiful, naturally. (See any breastfeeding controversy.) It is a sick way of looking at nudity, here in the USA. I truly wish the society/men would EVOLVE to the level of artistic appreciation of a natural nude body that IS in most other places around the World. Until then, it really IS a sick society.
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mikedmeyer — 11 years ago(July 28, 2014 05:09 PM)
It's hilarious that this thread turned to America bashing, when the original poster is clearly NOT American. Here's a couple hints: 1) Movies aren't rated "12" in the US - the rough equivalent is "PG-13." 2) "lads." Those two add up to Ireland or the UK being most likely.
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IMDb-Rot_in_Hell — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 08:29 AM)
You are an idiot!!
First of all your delusion that Europe is a sexual liberated utopia and America hates sex is an over-used and silly argument with no merit and nothing to it other than the fact you are clearly just another douchebag European, completely in love with your own country and just wants to rag on America and its people, what a brave social stance you have taken!
Second, the OP referred to the rating as "12", is that a rating that exists in America? No, its british you idiot.
Just proving that for all your smart-alleck, pseudo-intellectual, self-righteous behaviour, the only people that spend time on these message boards for this website are the most pathetic people on the internet. -
thomasdosborneii — 12 years ago(February 23, 2014 11:19 PM)
I don't think the nudity is the slightest problem at all, but I do worry about a young child seeing a movie with all the animal killing. I know that it is "real life" and probably a child needs to be exposed to this reality at some point, but I am not sure at which age it is okay. I'm a full grown adult and while I, of course, do understand that animals have to be killed (and I am a carnivore), there was so much of it that was sad and disturbing (and unquestionably graphic) even for me (particularly the spearing and cutting up of the kangaroos and the shooting and eviceration of the cattle). I might not want a child of seven to see this; not yet, anyway.
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hallogallo — 18 years ago(May 26, 2007 05:28 PM)
LOL. It's a 12. Your 7 year old brother shouldn't have been watching it anyway!
Actualy, speaking as a parent, I'd say that with proper parental supervision this movie would be fine for a 7 year old, though most would probably get bored of it.
And yes, for what it's worth, I did like Jenny's nudity. While they're not sexy as such, the swimming scenes are very sensual, the combination of that lovely music, the way they are shot, and Jenny herself (there's no getting around that she was a very pretty 16 year old), make them very memmorable.
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Roy_Bland — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 04:21 PM)
I can see absolutely no reason why a 7-year-old would be depraved, shocked or led astray by an artful series of shots of a nude woman. Yes, I can understand why one might have concerns about allowing somebody of that age to see a sex scene. There is, however, nothing wrong with him seeing this. Actually, the tragic suicide at the end would probably trouble somebody of that age more.
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SpookiMonkey — 18 years ago(June 14, 2007 06:47 PM)
Nudity does not automatically equal eroticism; that's in the mind of the beholder. It was a beautiful interlude and totally appropriate for
all
ages.
I agree that the suicide was far more of a shockerbut I also don't have a problem with confronting children with reality, as long as there are open lines of communication and you're ready to address their fears. Far better for them to know that the World is not always a Happy Place, but that one
can
stand up to it.
This film has haunted me for 36 years. I've only seen part of it ONCE on cable, just a few years' ago. I've got to get ahold of a copy.
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washcloud — 18 years ago(June 18, 2007 08:08 AM)
Here we are,in 2007,still trying to talk about nudity in movies(that wasnt sex Bill Haydon)..
Weirdest thing would be,that we wouldnt talk that much about it(or better yet we wouldnt talk about it in this "manner"),if it was nudity in some painting(especially of somebody famous),and surely we wouldn't have forbidden the 12 year old to see it and all that.
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ian-576 — 18 years ago(July 04, 2007 11:18 PM)
I saw this film with my parents when it was a new release. I was 7 years old then and I still remember seeing the "swimming" part. Now of course I am a total pervert sex-offender axe-murderer (NOT). Jeeez for f#%&* sake what's the big deal about a bit of nudity? Preventing children from seeing nudity is just unnatural. It's not like it's pornogrphy - no, just a girl having a swim, and do you think seeing some girls boobs and bush is really harmful to a child - not at all. Go back to your village pilgrim.
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Roy_Bland — 18 years ago(July 08, 2007 06:31 PM)
I know it's not a sex scene, washcloud. That was precisely my point, you cretin. I said that I saw no problem showing this scene to a young person, but by way of comparison I could understand why somebody would not wish to show a strong sex sequence to a child. Learn to read, learn to punctuate and learn to comprehend.
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guy-large — 18 years ago(July 19, 2007 02:52 PM)
I was quite 'perked' by the nude scene - but this was not becuase it was wrong in any way but rather becuase modern films have sexualised nakedness or shyed away from it coyley so much that it comes as a surprise to see it here.
That says a lot about the sad state of cinema that I should have been conditioned for this reaction, when of course, nudity is natural and I think its a beautiful thing to be comfortable with your own and others nudity.
So I think thats where the confusion comes into watching this film - in the context of our coy-or-sex-mad film environment - we think "it MUST be sexual, oh dear!". Stupid modern films.