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Well done, France
Feb. 12th, 2015 12:02 amOk, this made me laugh: Fifty Shades of Grey got an 18 rating in the U.K., an R rating in the U.S.—and France gave it a 12 rating, meaning anyone age 12 and over can see the erotic film in theaters, Variety reports.
Heheheheh. Oh, France, I applaud you. (Especially since the reviews are saying the sex is really not explicit at all.)
I remember when I was living with a host family while studying in France, Basic Instinct came on tv. My host parents and my little host brother who was 10 or 11 were watching it (I was sitting in the same room, but not in the immediate tv-viewing seating cluster with them, as I recall) and they did not bat an eye when nudity or sex scenes came on. (And on they came, French tv did not blur/edit/censor.) BUT when guns or ice picks came out, and violence was about to happen on screen, THEN they covered the eyes of their kid. It was a big lightbulb moment for me, in terms of crystallizing the differences between French and US cultural attitudes towards sex and violence. I was a bit taken aback when they weren't shielding their son from the sex, but was like, wellll, I guess they are just permissive, but I was genuinely surprised by the move to shield the kid from violence, because I had sort of forgotten that was a Thing? And it was my surprise more than anything that made me think about it all, and when I weigh the two sides, I think Team France wins.
Other thing that made me laugh a lot: What The Boy Next Door Thinks a First Edition of The Iliad Looks Like. Hahahahahahha! It sort of reminds me of when some friends and I saw Troy, and Achilles and Patrocles were horsing around on some ruins while practicing fighting or whatever, and my friend goes, wait, shouldn't those ruins just be buildings? Hehehe.
Heheheheh. Oh, France, I applaud you. (Especially since the reviews are saying the sex is really not explicit at all.)
I remember when I was living with a host family while studying in France, Basic Instinct came on tv. My host parents and my little host brother who was 10 or 11 were watching it (I was sitting in the same room, but not in the immediate tv-viewing seating cluster with them, as I recall) and they did not bat an eye when nudity or sex scenes came on. (And on they came, French tv did not blur/edit/censor.) BUT when guns or ice picks came out, and violence was about to happen on screen, THEN they covered the eyes of their kid. It was a big lightbulb moment for me, in terms of crystallizing the differences between French and US cultural attitudes towards sex and violence. I was a bit taken aback when they weren't shielding their son from the sex, but was like, wellll, I guess they are just permissive, but I was genuinely surprised by the move to shield the kid from violence, because I had sort of forgotten that was a Thing? And it was my surprise more than anything that made me think about it all, and when I weigh the two sides, I think Team France wins.
Other thing that made me laugh a lot: What The Boy Next Door Thinks a First Edition of The Iliad Looks Like. Hahahahahahha! It sort of reminds me of when some friends and I saw Troy, and Achilles and Patrocles were horsing around on some ruins while practicing fighting or whatever, and my friend goes, wait, shouldn't those ruins just be buildings? Hehehe.
