France is a country that people either love or hate, get ready to hear some more news that will either have you cheering or booing for the place where women tan topless and age gracefully. The people over at yahoo.com give us this:
The French culture minister sat through a screening of horror flick “Saw III” — and wasn’t happy with what he saw. Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres announced in a statement Tuesday that he would prohibit minors under 18 from seeing the film, which opens this week in France. The minister said the movie exhibited “violence and intolerable, incessant sadism.” The scenes explicitly showing “physical and moral torture” justified the decision, he said.
Such decisions are rare in France. The under-18 ban was ressurected in 2000 for Virginie Despentes’ sexually explicit film “Rape Me,” and it has been applied to only a handful of releases.
This is a rare thing for France, they are, after all considered too liberal, excusing everything in the name of art. To ban this movie for minors is quite…intelligent.
Yep, I am in total agreement of this decision. The amount of violence that minors are exposed to on a regular basis is obscene. Seeing a naked woman freezing to death will not do anything for the next generation of people growing up in the world. Sure the creativeness of the torture is interesting, but there is nothing helpful in this movie for kids. Unless you count desensitizing the masses toward gruesome acts a good idea.
I know that kids see violence all the time, but do we have to give up and buy them a book on masochism for dummies? Wouldn’t it be better to take a stand? I think it would.
I have long wondered why nudity is bad but violence is tolerable. If our children saw half as much nakedness as they do violence on a daily basis they would probably have fewer body issues, and be a lot less inclined to act out aggressively.
I think France is in the right for doing this and I’m not afraid to say it. Ok, well I’m a little afraid, but just because my family is English.
