Post by Sally on Feb 12, 2018 20:53:19 GMT -6
I'm not going to put a screen shot up of what prompted me to talk about this because it involves a photo of very young children watching this movie.
I'm attaching a screen shot from a site that rates movies according to their appropriateness for families.
The very young children watching this movie included a two-year-old.
The premise of the movie, basically, is that a man is vacationing with his children, and one nearly drowns. He saves that one, but a serial killer abducts another one and brutally kills her and they can't find the body.
Seriously. That is what the fucking film is about.
Beyond that, it becomes all sweetness and light and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It's, of course, a Christian film, and Christians do this routinely. If anyone else on the planet said, "Just grab 'em by the pussy," that would be horrible, but if their presidential candidate does it, well, it's forgivable. If your brother regularly sought out, stalked and dated young teenage girls, he'd be considered a pedophile, but if their candidate for the US Senate does it while simultaneously trying to force the Ten Commandments down everyone's throats, it's fine.
These people love gore and crime and sex and horror. They love it just as much as any heathen anywhere, but they have to pretend that they don't. That's why a movie that is essentially a slasher film like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is fine to show in church. You just hide all the blood and gore behind religion and you're good to go. That's why you go to church and hear a "testimony" from somebody who waxes eloquent about his many "sins," and it's fine because Jesus loves this shit.
And I guess that's why it's okay, fucking okay, to let small children watch a film about a near drowning and a murder by a fucking serial killer (of a CHILD, no less) and just because Jesus is in it, along with God and the Holy Spirit, it's lovely and sweet and oh yes.
When I was a little girl, there was a television series that was popular called The Twilight Zone. It was, for its time, scary as shit. There was an episode one night called The Eye of the Beholder. I will never forget it. It was seared into my brain. The short version is that a woman is having treatment because her appearance is so awful that people can't stand to look at her. Her head is all bandaged. At the climax moment, they unwrap her head and the doctor says, "No change. No change at all" and we see a beautiful actress. It's the doctor and the nurses who are deformed and ugly.
I know by today's standards this is cheesy, but at the time, for a young girl, it was horrible. I sobbed and screamed and cried and couldn't sleep. I had nightmares for a very long time because of that one episode. Children do not understand that it's not real. As a child, I didn't see the very obvious plot line coming and I was horrified. My brother, five years older than me, laughed at me because I was so scared. So, there was a huge difference between me as about an 8 year old and my brother at 13.
When Nathan was little, maybe 4 or so, he loved to watch Charlie Brown cartoons. There was one where Snoopy was sitting on the roof of his dog house with that damned little bird, Woodstock. And Woodstock suddenly falls into the river and is swept away.
Oh, my god. My poor child. This was before there was a way to record anything, remember. There was no way to stop the film or rewind or fast forward. Nathan burst into tears and couldn't watch it anymore. He cried and sobbed and it was just awful. Meanwhile, his dad kept saying, "Nathan, come back. They saved Woodstock. He's okay. It's all right." He didn't have nightmares forever, but he was certainly upset for quite some time.
Adding a bit of Jesus into the movie doesn't make it less devastating for a kid. And if you have a kid who is so enured to violence and the idea of serial killers who come and steal little children and murder them that a movie like this doesn't bother them, something is very wrong in your household.
The Shack is rated PG-13. There is a reason for that.
I'm attaching a screen shot from a site that rates movies according to their appropriateness for families.
The very young children watching this movie included a two-year-old.
The premise of the movie, basically, is that a man is vacationing with his children, and one nearly drowns. He saves that one, but a serial killer abducts another one and brutally kills her and they can't find the body.
Seriously. That is what the fucking film is about.
Beyond that, it becomes all sweetness and light and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It's, of course, a Christian film, and Christians do this routinely. If anyone else on the planet said, "Just grab 'em by the pussy," that would be horrible, but if their presidential candidate does it, well, it's forgivable. If your brother regularly sought out, stalked and dated young teenage girls, he'd be considered a pedophile, but if their candidate for the US Senate does it while simultaneously trying to force the Ten Commandments down everyone's throats, it's fine.
These people love gore and crime and sex and horror. They love it just as much as any heathen anywhere, but they have to pretend that they don't. That's why a movie that is essentially a slasher film like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is fine to show in church. You just hide all the blood and gore behind religion and you're good to go. That's why you go to church and hear a "testimony" from somebody who waxes eloquent about his many "sins," and it's fine because Jesus loves this shit.
And I guess that's why it's okay, fucking okay, to let small children watch a film about a near drowning and a murder by a fucking serial killer (of a CHILD, no less) and just because Jesus is in it, along with God and the Holy Spirit, it's lovely and sweet and oh yes.
When I was a little girl, there was a television series that was popular called The Twilight Zone. It was, for its time, scary as shit. There was an episode one night called The Eye of the Beholder. I will never forget it. It was seared into my brain. The short version is that a woman is having treatment because her appearance is so awful that people can't stand to look at her. Her head is all bandaged. At the climax moment, they unwrap her head and the doctor says, "No change. No change at all" and we see a beautiful actress. It's the doctor and the nurses who are deformed and ugly.
I know by today's standards this is cheesy, but at the time, for a young girl, it was horrible. I sobbed and screamed and cried and couldn't sleep. I had nightmares for a very long time because of that one episode. Children do not understand that it's not real. As a child, I didn't see the very obvious plot line coming and I was horrified. My brother, five years older than me, laughed at me because I was so scared. So, there was a huge difference between me as about an 8 year old and my brother at 13.
When Nathan was little, maybe 4 or so, he loved to watch Charlie Brown cartoons. There was one where Snoopy was sitting on the roof of his dog house with that damned little bird, Woodstock. And Woodstock suddenly falls into the river and is swept away.
Oh, my god. My poor child. This was before there was a way to record anything, remember. There was no way to stop the film or rewind or fast forward. Nathan burst into tears and couldn't watch it anymore. He cried and sobbed and it was just awful. Meanwhile, his dad kept saying, "Nathan, come back. They saved Woodstock. He's okay. It's all right." He didn't have nightmares forever, but he was certainly upset for quite some time.
Adding a bit of Jesus into the movie doesn't make it less devastating for a kid. And if you have a kid who is so enured to violence and the idea of serial killers who come and steal little children and murder them that a movie like this doesn't bother them, something is very wrong in your household.
The Shack is rated PG-13. There is a reason for that.