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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY:
SPECIAL: This is a Special Guest MMMitt Analysis by John Mittler, aka Movie Rat from Finland. Visit MMMitt Analysis for an explanation of their rating codes.
Presenting guest analyses from MMMitt Analysis is an effort to join together Christians who battle sin in sinema from both continents. On our way to world-wide presence, the CAP Ministry is honored to bring to you the insight of our fellow Soldiers of Finland. John is featuring CAP analyses on his website and will occasionally be sending us his analyses of movies which are playing in Finland before release in the US for the CAP to share with you. Let us welcome MMMitt Analysis with love and in service to our Lord.
(Premier in USA: week of 08 Jan 2001)
Genre: drama, adventure
Age limit in Finland: 14
1a) Female body, minimum level of clothing, 6.5
Breasts and the hips area from waist to upper thigh covered with a loose garment, thin and wet garment covers the centers of breasts in part insufficiently.
1b) Male body, minimum level of clothing, 6.8
Working overalls without a shirt.
2) Violence, 6.6
Shooting a grazing cow with machine gun for fun, driving over a cow with car, crushing a frog into death in fist, torturing a human being by whipping, ku klux klan, death penalty, shooting at human beings with firearms... but on the other hand, what comes to people, the film moves in light irreality where suffering hardly exists, and no bullet ever even threatens to hit its target.
3) Intimate relationships (concerns primarily the main characters), 6.8
Divorce is being planned... it remains a bit unclear what the men exactly do with the sirens who behave in an uninhibited way.
4) Stimulants (concerns primarily the main characters), 6.9
Cigar is set on lips several times during the movie... serving spirits becomes only a joke, the whole thought would be impossible in circles this pious.
5) Property (concerns primarily the main characters), 6.0
Stealing another person's property.
6) Language, 6.0
So-called hard swear-words, whose only or primary meaning is eternal kingdom of destruction, devil, etc. [all possible known strong words are not mentioned, but the ones that are mentioned are enumerated the more often].
7) Truth (concerns primarily the main characters), 6.0
Deception, conscious lying which harms other people [Christianity is ridiculed with some devotion, by the way].
8) Beauty, 6.7
As an accurate description of the oldish way of life, the difference between male and female appearance is with religious pathos exactly 7.0, and beautification is left both for men and women generally even on the side of prudish temperance (7.3)... however, the rating sinks under seven due to eye sicknesses causing serious esthetical disadvantage, which are offered to the spectator as such without bothering to considerately cover them with eye patch or dark glasses
9) Music, 7.2
The music, played with quite unrefined and simple instruments, leans towards the direction of ascetism, without doubt on purpose, trying to catch the atmosphere of the American countryside in early 1900's: the sound reaches the top of its sophistication in a cappella choral parts... whenever there's an instrument of any kind involved, Beethoven would turn in his grave.
| "There are some in the entertainment industry who maintain that 1) violent programming is harmless because no studies exist that prove a connection between violent entertainment and aggressive behavior in children, and 2) young people know that television, movies, and video games are simply fantasy. Unfortunately, they are wrong on both accounts." [Emphasis is mine] And "Viewing violence may lead to real life violence." I aplaud these associations for fortifying 1 Cor. 15:33. Read the rest of the story. From our five-year study, I contend that other aberrant behaviors, attitudes, and expressions can be inserted in place of "violence" in that statement. Our Director - Child Psychology Support, a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist concurs. For example, "Viewing arrogance against fair authority may lead to your kids defying you in real life." Or "Viewing sex may lead to sex in real life." Likewise and especially with impudence, hate and foul language. I further contend that any positive behavior can be inserted in place of "violence" with the same chance or likelihood of being a behavior template for the observer; of being incorporated into the behavior mechanics and/or coping skills of the observer. In choosing your entertainment, please consider carefully the "rest of the story" and our findings. |
