Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sex & Violence
I'm a Netflix user and one of the last DVDs I rented was a Tales from the Crypt: Season 1. I can't say I enjoyed it all that much. The stories were pretty cliche, with the bad guy/gal doing something bad to someone and then getting their just rewards by the end of the episode. I often read the reviews and this was no exception. The Netflix listing made this NR, for not-rated. Of course, there's always those people who think something like this would be good as a baby-sitter. And of course, they're going to complain about the DVD soon after.
But what they complain about is always the language and sex. Tales from the Crypt uses the F-word pretty often and, horrors of horrors, occasionally shows a bare boob - or two. It should be noted that this volume also contained a wife slamming a fireplace poker into her husband's head, a slightly deranged executioner electrocuting a slew of victims (one of whom had a bared breast, so I suppose she deserved it), a newlywed chopping her newly betrothed into bloody bits with a battle axe, and a doctor transplanting the nine-life organ into a guy's head.
But you know what? The only complaint for the kiddies was the bare-boob (and quite a nice boob at that) and the profanity. The blood and guts, and hacking and slashing, and shooting and burying didn't seem to be a problem. One of our problems in this country is that we seem to be more accepting of murder and violence than sex. OK, I don't have any kids, so I really don't know how I'd treat my own, but I do think I'd rather have my kid run around naked than chopping up people with an axe.
