By Phoenix.Darkovercast 2014-02-02 13:20:49
This is just more harmless entertainment. If your child grows up messed up, I don’t think you can credit a movie for whatever is “wrong” with your kid. It’s the parent’s action or inaction that leads for extraordinary cases of kids being messed up.
Really though, I haven’t met one person alive today that isn’t messed up a bit in their own way. I think parents should stop going to war with every video game or movie that comes out saying that it is going to damage their kids mind forever.
When I was about nine, I was taken out a crappy cottage my mother owned I spent the whole night at a bon fire swapping ghost stories etc, it was about two AM and I came home to my mother asleep to the television, not wanting to get into trouble for staying up later I tried to stay silent but I was entranced by the warm glow of the crappy television we had.
Alfred Hitchcock’s psycho was playing.
Dunno if you have digested this little treat of a classic psychological horror film, but in a nutshell there is a son that has had his dead mother in a house for ages now, and keeps talking to her, and dressing up as her. A girl comes to stay at this hotel and he watches her shower and ends up stabbing her to death in the shower, very powerful imagery, the whole movie is black and white, but when he stabbed her which seems to be countless times of a flurry of knifes the only color in the whole film comes splashing down around her and she struggles and falls. Red.
I’ll admit for a couple of weeks it messed me up. I avoided showering; I bathed in the lake instead. But you know what? In less than two weeks I forgot about the whole thing.
Tl;dr parents grow a pair and take responsibility for your child. Sorry there is no handbook for raising ‘em but its trial and error. Stop blaming faceless corporations for your own short comings and try harder. No one else will. No one.