Friday, 22 June 2007

Movies, Morality, and Ratings: A Hard Look at Our Opinion of Films

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Greg Wright has posted on The Resurgence about "Movies, Morality, and Ratings: A Hard Look at Our Opinion of Films".
Personally I love films, apart from horror and feel there is no need for graphic sex scenes within films. But there are alot of times that I have to draw the line with what I view or buy, and often my mind is wrecked with thoughts on the whole issue of film and Tv.
So as i'm continuing to think about this issue it is good to read articles from both sides of the argument as to whether we watch film or not.

Greg Wright begins;
"Consider this graphic Hollywood plotline: A man travels to Las Vegas to retrieve his cheating wife. On the way back to Los Angeles, the two stop at a rundown motel in Death Valley. During the night, a mob of sexual degenerates surrounds their cabin, threatening to sodomize the man. Hoping to appease the bloodlust, the man throws his wife outside—and when morning comes, the mob has left nothing of her but a corpse. The man cuts up her body and sends pieces of it to his friends… But that's nothing compared to the bloodbath that follows

No, this isn't the synopsis for Saw IV or the latest Quentin Tarantino gore-fest. It's an update of a not-so-familiar biblical story from Judges 20-21."

Continue to read here.
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