I agree that you probably shouldn't let your seven year old child watch this movie, if only for the suicide. The nudity
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ilssaridor — 13 years ago(January 26, 2013 08:30 AM)
I am not intentionally trying to "draw out" nor provoke anyone, but I do want people to consider
Obviously times change:
Gone With the Wind
was released in December 1939/January 1940 with the inclusion of the word "damn," which was considered offensive then (see below), but is used routinely in general publications today (circa 2012+)(including public TV and TCM) without regard to what the average person finds "hardly a G":
"In 1939, the Hollywood Production Code dictated what could and could not be shown or said on screen and Rhett Butler's memorable last line presented a serious problem in fact the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, to insure that Selznick would be in compliance with the code."
Today (again, 2012+), I routinely hearboth on television and in the classroom children say "this sucks" and "that sucks," which is accepted as
not
profanity But if I had said it when I was their age, I would have been suspended from school (because obviously there is another word that follows "sucks").
Modern media (and public perception) grows permissive as time proceeds. Personally, I don't remember images of mutilated (and
dead
) bodies on national,
nightly
,
public
news broadcasts prior to 1968 (VIETNAM): which again (now) seem common place: Iraq; Afghanistan; American school shootings. Depending on your age, you might consider this "acceptable."
My point is this: why are so many people "offended" by a nude body, but accept violence, violent images, and ("so-called") profanity without complaint? (Feel free to direct me to legitimate websites which promote the censure of violence on public
NEWS
television.)
Under George Bush's (conservative Republican) reign, Attorney General John Ashcroft had our (U.S.A.) historical national icon the (statue)
Spirit of Justice
hidden behind drapes because one female breast was exposed. There was nothing sexual nor prurient about it. (Oh, by the way, that administartion spent $8000 of our tax dollars to do so defintiely a waste of my tax dollars which I did not agree to.)
I cannot see how some people can immediatly see any exposure of a human breast or pubic hair as "obscene." Two thousand years ago, Greeks routinley exercised and participated in athletic events in the nude. The human body was not considered "obscene" or something that children should not see in fact, it was considered normal to see such a thing. Children learned not to view the human body as something to be ashamed of (which came about with Christian shame of "original sin"), but as natural and normal.
We are not talking about blatant sexual acts like "adult videos" here; we are talking about human beings becoming mature (and all that that entails) in a normal way.
Why is anyone afraid of natural human developement shown in a non-prurient way?
"Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect"
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DeclanCochran — 12 years ago(May 10, 2013 12:29 PM)
Oh good heavens, your 7 year old brother saw nudity. He's definitely going to become severely mentally disturbed and be forever irreparably damaged now! Shame on you!!!!!
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jk90us — 11 years ago(May 04, 2014 12:05 PM)
waty do you think? (did you lads like the nudity by any chance)
Best part of the movie (Agutter's nudity that is.).
But if someone made this today (with a naked 16yo girl and 7yo boy) they'd rush him off to jail for being a pedophile, especially in the USA.
jk90
38 of the last 44 Best Actress Oscar winners have been nude in films.
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Tommen_Saperstein — 9 years ago(November 01, 2016 08:10 PM)
12 year-olds see themselves nude in the mirror all the time
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saxman418 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 06:48 PM)
Nonsense. The nudity in the film was not sexual, but portrayed the characters' natural response to a natural environment. The whole point of the film is the contrast between the natural lifestyle of the aborigines and the sterile 'civilised' society of Westernised Australia. How did your 7 year old brother respond to the nudity? Was he shocked?
Blowin the changes!