Child porn or high art?

there's nothing intrinsically shocking about the images in this movie (besides for maybe the animal being killed). i would only be afraid that the children didn't understand what they were participating in, and would thus have been exploited (though certainly not with any pornographic intent on the part of the filmmaker). the dynamics between the children and adults are interesting, and the film as is definitely makes a powerful statement about revolution.

i'd just like to make a comment, if you read the user reviews for this, only pay attention to the positive review, which is very fair (not "pretentious art-lover" gushing over what they should, but a defense against the mindless nonsense of the otehr two reviews). the negative ones range from nonsense regarding some sort of mystical taboo buzzword "CHILD PORN" (yes, child porn is bad, but it's bad *for the reasons that it is bad*, i.e. exploitation, violation; not because it has a naked child in it, or because someone applies the title 'child porn' to it) to racism (one review says that something is "lost in the translation" and that you need to be from japan to understand the movie--which the reviewer thinks is worthless child porn; there's some easy math to do there... and further, you don't need to live in japan to get that the movie is calling potential revolutionaries children and then exploring more themes beyond that). if any reader could follow all those parentheses and dashes, i hope the words i wrote were helpful.