The CAP Rule of 1000 addresses a relatively new cinematographic technique of loading a movie with tons of "lesser" issues of assaults on wholesome morality to get the same effect or "feel" of a more severe movie which uses fewer but more extreme and bold issues of immorality. The CAP Rule of 1000 states that a movie which presents, for example, 100 examples of bad behaviors/images of lesser severity, each worth only 10 "bads" (Movie A) is just as negatively influential as a movie of the same length that presents only 10 examples of bad behaviors/images but of more extreme severity each worth 100 "bads" (Movie B). Both movies are worth 1000 "bads."
Some modern PG and most PG-13 movies are examples of the CAP Rule of 1000. And what is really bad about this is that most of us have become accustomed to hearing and seeing such "minor" assaults on morality that they have become invisible to us, creating the "Gimme a break!" syndrome toward our pointing them out. We have become so progressively drugged by the narcotics of extremes in and as entertainment that what once was morally unacceptable has become morally invisble.
And by discussion with our Director - Child Psychology Support, the CAP Rule of 1000 is not quite linear. Meaning that for two movies of the same length which each earn the same number of "bads", the movie that presents many examples of lesser "bads" is indeed more negatively influential than the movie with only a few but more severe "bads."
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