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| TheCube42 15 Jun 2014, 00:58 | You still do not give any fully substantiated and reactive argument against my focus on the criteria, but instead repeat your two most-often-stated arguments, which base themselves on relatively individual perception. Should HTTYD2 have been a more mature-rated movie? Maybe. Is it? No, it is not; if then, ratings guidelines will often override the entitlement to realism. (There also happen to be a boatload of E10+ games with visceral major character deaths without blood, which demonstrate my point.) (To label the lack of blood as down-talking/patronizing would be also rather stretching it a bit, given the presence of truly patronizing PG films like The Cat in the Hat from 2003, MAC and Me, The Smurfs, etc. etc. etc. etc.) Also, to assume the blood is fine since children have seen this situation "dozens, if not hundreds, of times before anyway," would be oversimplification: Exposure does not truly normalize. Should we be allowing nudity in T-rated games because many gamers around age 12 have already been exposed to games like GTA, etc.? If exposure normalizes, how do you draw a line? At this point, one resorts to some sort of moral relativism, at which point "I'm right, you're wrong" becomes something indefensible, and we shouldn't even be talking about this topic at all. We hide things from children because we hold innocence in childhood to be under the goal of our Sanctity moral receptor (see Moral Foundations Theory for explanation). It just happens that the more visceral aftermaths of violence (blood and gore) are perceived by the conventional Western culture as a significant disruption of the innocence. (Again, getting off-topic. I really don't want to talk about moral psychology in a HTTYD forum. And I would appreciate a slightly less repulsive tone.) OT: Still no more Night Furies in the movie? Better wait for the third film... |
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