On the surface it is very interesting and appears authentic. A little to authentic in some respects if you believe life was hard and full of marauding soldiers that have their way with people back in the 1700's.
Here is a sample of some of the questionably family friendly content as described found on the IMDB.COM site..
A woman rips her dress open, full nudity
A man puts his hand up a woman's dress and she starts moaning. No nudity but the scene lasts for quite a while
A woman tries to have sex with a married man, she is wearing a very revealing dress, they start kissing but he tells her to stop
several attempts to rape, nudity involved.
A man is seen with a gunshot wound which is then taken care of by a nurse.
Several men are attacked by a boar. They have graphic wounds in their legs. One man's intestines are exposed.
A little boy has a nail hammered through his ear as a form of punishment. He screams in pain, and blood pours out of his wound.
A man tries to rape a woman in episode one, he lifts her skirts up to expose her bottom but he is interrupted
The same man tries to rape a woman in a later episode, he bends her over the table and lifts her skirts, rips open her dress to reveal her breasts but he is interrupted
A man and woman have sex in a field, a woman's dress has been ripped open to reveal her breasts. They are interrupted by some soldiers, one tries to rape the woman but nothing is seen and he is stopped.
In episode 12, one attempted rape scene goes on for a while. In the prolonged scene the man exposes his genitals while we watch him rub them but being unable to become erect to rape the woman he is with. He beats her several times before she blacks out, it is unclear what occurred afterwards.
In episode 14, two women talk while one of them squeezes the breast-milk out of each one of her nipples into a cup. This goes on for a couple of minutes.
A group of travelers comes across two bodies hanging from crosses. The men have been crucified and otherwise abused. Close-ups of the bodies are shown and the victims have been dead for about a week.
Various scenes in which severely wounded men are being treated, which display a high level of anxiety and urge combined with screaming or moaning and images of blood gushing.
This is just a sampling of the various types of content. The area they list are Gore & Violence, Sex & Nudity, Frightening/Intense Scenes, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Profanity. They have listings for each one.... The Sex section is more then a screen full at regular font size.
So the question is this - Do we really have to have all this profanity, sensual material etc in our programs? Could they not have made the same program and not included the majority of this material? Is there a way to make a TV series for example that is still basically historically accurate without having to throw in so much sex, violence and the like?
I once was watching a documentary on the making of the God Father Movie. At one point Francis Coppella said there was rumors that a violence director would be brought in to make the movie more violent etc. Kind of scary thinking of why do they need to add that stuff in..... many times it does not help the movie one bit.That becomes the challenge. How do those of us that still have morals or want to have morals push for more quality programming. I'd love some good Scottish culture programming, that is not necessarily documentary and potentially dull. I'd also like to have said program(s) not be full of rape scenes.
We gave away our copy of the Rob Roy movie featuring Liam Neeson. Over all the movie was good. The story very authentic, well paced, written and acted. However, one part that lasts for say 2 minutes in the movie made us give it up.... the Raping of the wife by Cunningham. You might know what I'm talking about if you've seen the movie. If you haven't your missing nothing. We'll take our Disney version any day since it is clean. Slightly different focus, style, and the like but, good no the less.
Another case in point. We watch LADYKILLERS featuring Tom Hanks the other night. Good overall remake and in some respects better especially if you could remove all the language.
So that is the challenge.... finding a way to get good entertaining material while still keeping our morals, and minds clean from the filth that is present in so much programming.
I guess one of the few ways to know if you should even be watching something is this - If you would not watch it with your kids present should you be watching it at all.
The US has a rating system though as most of you have found out - PG-13 does not always means your kids should be watching it...... the lines are so grey these days it is hard to tell just from the rating. Some other countries have rating but, they too are equally vague and not really helpful.
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A few sites have been developed over the last few years in regards to rating media content in a different way beyond the normal rating system.
One such site is OK.com uses an age rating 6+ or say 17+ as the minimum age that should be watching this material. Seems to be a popular way of doing things in other countries for ratings.
They don't put an overall rating on a movie or program. They rank the areas of concern - profanity, nudity, violence etc. That way you can find out if a movie is high for say profanity but, very low for everything else.
ASSIGNED NUMBERS
Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context. - Kids-in-mind.com
The LadyKillers tends to be off the chart for profanity but, in the middle for the other factors.
Had I known that I'm not sure I would have even watch any of it.
The problem is some rate just movies, or just TV. There is not a one stop shop for everything.... though I guess it never will be since you'd need one that cover all the countries of the world.
I'd like to put some well known Scottish culture films or programs and a cleaner alternative
Rob Roy (Liam Neeson) - Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (by Disney), Count of Monte Cristo
Brave Heart (Mel Gibson) - Can not figure out a good substitute.
Outlander (Starz Series) - Kidnapped, Poldark(PBS)
Honorable Mention(s) - The Mission, Lord of the Ring Series, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, The Eagle, Willow
(some of these may be borderline for Violence etc)
Again some styles of films and topics are very hard to tone down the action, etc. What you have to look for are the ones that might have a bit of fighting, though exclude unnecessary language or sex.
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