Stupid crazy people taking your baby to see District 9? What are you smoking? Why would you do that to your kid?
Tim and I went to see District 9 last weekend. For those of you who don't know, it's a film about aliens. Space aliens. And cursing. And guns. and bombs. and bloody explosions (the aliens had a really cool gun that would explode a person like a balloon and blood would fly everywhere – including all over the camera). I'm not so offended by this stuff. I think it's a lot of fun to watch.
But it was very violent, in a video game sort of way.
The movie did an excellent job of exploring race relations on this planet. It highlighted the worse parts that come out whenever we start dealing with refugees and not trusting folks who are different. And it did it in a non-preachy way, since the different folks were crazy space monsters.
So, did I mention the exploding guts and space monsters hopping on everything?
So why would those friggin morons bring their less-than-two-year-old baby to the movie?
People. Please. Babies do have eyes and ears. And they will remember the movies. In some cases they won't know where the imagery came from, but they will remember.
When I was growing up, I had a recurring nightmare. I'd always wake up terrified. It scared me so much that I wouldn't even tell anyone about it.
When I was in my 20s, I happened to watch a movie called "Rosemary's Baby." Maybe you've heard of it. I was astounded and amazed that the recurring nightmare was a scene from the classic film about demon spawn.
So I called my mom and asked her if I ever saw that movie and she sheepishly replied that she and my father had gone to see it in the drive-in theatre, and I was supposed to have been asleep in the back seat of the car. So there you go. I was only 2, and it scarred me for life.
So somebody shake those stupid people down when they start taking their babies to movies like District 9, which is destined to become another classic, but probably shouldn't have tiny children watching it.
