My Addled Brain

Went to see Kill Bill last night. During the screening, wherein Uma Thurman proceeds to de-limb dozens of opponents in a one-woman slaughter, I manage to hear a member of the audience say the following: “Daddy, who is that person?”

Some mental genius thought it was a good idea to bring their young (and by young, I mean young in the single digit age bracket) child to see this movie. Now, I’m not about to say that you should not bring a child to see a movie if you think they can handle it - but what 7 or 8 year old is going to be able to understand exactly what is going on in this movie and not be affected by it? Are you a moron? Was the urge to go see this movie so bad that you couldn’t waste the time to find a babysitter? Are you so parentally challenged that you don’t see the issues that bringing a child to such a movie can create?

I dunno. Maybe I shouldn’t judge. I’m not a parent, and I don’t know the child, and I don’t know the situation. But people wonder why our society seems to be more violent these days, and they point to all the violence on TV, movies, and video games as the cause. And maybe they are, to a certain extent. But if you parents out there would, just maybe, take a hand in what your child is doing in the first place, or better yet, not promote watching this sort of thing by taking your kid to see it in the first place, maybe this wouldn’t be as bad of an issue. You can’t take away the public’s right to view this stuff - hell, I was very entertained by the movie. But I just don’t understand the judgement of some parents.

Whew. Review of aforementioned movie when I’m not all PO’d, sometime later today.