Posted on 06/14/2004 2:34:56 PM PDT by KMC1
Nicole Kidman is reportedly silent on rumors of whether her newest film Birth. Will be released or not. Kidman shot the film just after the new-this-weekend movie - The Stepford Wives. In the story Nicole believes her deceased husband to be reincarnated - only this time as a 10 year old. This is really not a new theme in a film - numerous films have tried to play with the idea of someone we love "coming back" to us after their death. But few have been this controversial. According to Austrailian news reports, the character Kidman plays shares an intimate bath and kiss with the 10 year old boy. To the studios credit they labeled the scenes disgusting.
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I walked out on a mainstream movie 10 or 15 years ago that had Laura Dern in bed with a young boy--can't remember the name of it. (Might even have her name wrong!)
If true, what is the thought process of this boy's parents?
Hebrews 9:17
It is appointed ONCE to a man to die....and then the judgement.
It was Rambling Rose, 1991. A young woman is taken in by a family to be their housemaid so that she can avoid a life of prostitution (as if that were the only way). She ends up teaching their little boy a thing or two--that's where I walked out, with my 14-year-old daughter, who was just as appalled as I was. I shouted, "Kiddie porn!" but nobody else left the theater. They were just annoyed that we were disturbing them by walking in front of them.
O.C.
What is that hymn about working before the darkness falls, when no man can work?
I don't know of a hymn that directly quotes the passage, but thank you for bringing that to mind. John 9:4
This is just plain wrong.
They finally came out in the open on behalf of "kiddie porn", which you really have to assume is the favorite form of visual material for all ACLU members (as a consequence of this movie)
The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It includes one scene that suggests, but doesn't actually depict, an oral sex act between the boy, aged 6 to 7, and a teenage girl.
The "once to die" can also refer to finally achieving release from the mandala. When that happens you are really dead.
Rambling Rose is also set in the hot, muggy Souf' where sexpot women are really sexpots ~ I haven't seen the film myself, but I would imagine most of your audience wasn't there to worry about the deal with the kid.
Second, while I'm sure a film of this nature will stir up a great deal of controversy, I bet we won't hear much from liberal groups, particularly feminist groups such as NOW, etc. However, what do you suppose would happen if, instead of this being a woman in her thirties dilly-dallying with a ten year old boy, it was instead a thirty year old man dilly-dallying with a ten year old girl?
This type of thing is much more common in Europe. They consider us puritanical prudes, wereas we see them as child molesting pornographers.
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