Jan 02 2009
Cracking the Code, Part 8
This philosophy of “lead us not into temptation” seems as though it would be beneficial today, especially in light of incidents like teens being injured attempting to imitate scenes from “Jackass: The Movie.” Something important is lost when there are no limits to what can be seen and, by extension, learned in the theatre.
However, our present culture is much more cynical than the conservative generation of the thirties, forties, and fifties. As children of the Information Age, fed on a steady diet of special effects and reality television, a Hollywood that chose not to include depictions of drug dealing and gunshot wounds would seem incomplete and unbelievable.
