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Friday 17 April 2015

False Innocence

Adults regularly enjoy public entertainments
that have almost biblical quantities of violence,
linked with sex and drug taking, in them.
It is as if such coarse intimacies
were more articles of faith drawn from life
than dystopic urban shaggy dog stories.
Children's Films are meant to be more innocent
but instead end up being Bowdlerised versions
of films for adults. Where once adults thrilled
at the movies showing ideas of a life outside the law
what children now get are false sentiments
about how adults are untrustworthy,
the catharsis coming from how children
escape the consequences of adult lies.
If children were disallowed being entertained
by these cowering imitations of adulthood
should it be because first the director/
distributors of the film and then the families
who indulge the child all be drowned
with a millstone at their neck for perpetuating
their corrupting influence? Or should none of us
want to see this faked up filth?
Least of all as mere 'entertainment',
lest we collectively will to drown ourselves?

Or should we all seek a positive alternative?



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