Sunday, June 10, 2007

When is a film bad for children ?

The answer - as per the last comment below?

The main thing is that what is bad should not seem right.
---when the script is used to make a walk thats ultimateley deadend and dangeraous look like something worth chasing? - not so much movies, but the post modern lyrics of despair and and self serving that are all over video clips ? What do you think? dressed up directions to nowhere but fun in particular .

Christianity today ran a survey recently to get some feedback over how much of the violence and sin of real life should be in a movie . I thought this response was helpful . esp lAST BIT which, I think , condemns many of carelessly put together pictures of the present.

I agree that you have to have the ugly with the good to be real. I hate plastic and preachy movies that are unbelievable. But even in secular movies I avoid nudity and brutal violence.


The main thing is that what is bad should not seem right.
Joyce Weliky

1 comment:

journeymanj said...

The Chasers War illustrate another danger in childrens education - Children do not NEED any encouragement to fall for the shallow short term myth that resistig restraint is good fun . We all know its fun to let go - but a lifestyle that uses it as a fun tool ( the risk in character development) is a tragedy and many there are who don't realise it .