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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
And why does a movie always have to be 'entertainment?'
I wasn't 'entertained' by Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Kids, Bully, Gummo, In the Company of Men, The War of the Roses, Seven, any number of dark slices of the human experience. Or even more in documentaries such as Brother's Keeper, Capturing the Friedmans, even Gimme Shelter. But I often took something away from it that was moving or cautionary or unsettling, or otherwise memorable. Can't say that of every movie I see.
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I guess I have a different definition of entertained than you. Seven, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List ect. are a form of entertainment to me. A much more serious entertainment, but entertainment none the less. I do not care if a movie makes me think or feel, so long as I am able to get lost in a story for a couple of hours I walk away having been entertained. I find not a GD thing entertaining about a 12 year old girl being sexually molested, not even pervesely.
But that to me is not the real issue, if you get off on that, whatever. To me the issue is the poor judgment in putting a 12 year old girl through simulated sexual molestation. She is too imature to make such a decision for herself, and those who do know what decision is being made are not thinking of her best interest emotionally, only financially. And that is the wrong motive to be driven by in this case. In a day and age where the mantra is "for the children", we are seeing one of those kiddos taking a back seat to fame and fortune.