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This movie is really controversial, especially according to today standards. There is no killing, no swearing, no fighting, no shooting, there is no blood, no broken bones, no bullyng, no blackmailing... There is love, friendship, understanding, helping. Yes, there is a scene of intended molesting, which actually never happens, and it is clearly shown as something very wrong, and that is (as much I remember) any trace of violence in the movie. And, yes, there is some nudity because a movie was made in the decade when people under 18 were still allowed to take off their clothes to wash themselves. Today, as we are taught, everybody under 18 must keep at least 2 or 3 pieces of clothes and underwear to go under shower or in bath. And suddenly in a one single day, on 18th birthday they change so much and become so mature that they can even make hardporn movies, which are presented to us as not only non-controversial but a good and welcome part of movie industry. I just don't know how can young people act in them, when they know nothing about sex, as movies want us to believe. They must learn very quickly.

Friends is a tender, romantic, honest love story. We are so surrounded and saturated with action movies full of violence that we don't understand love stories anymore. We understand that adolescents are bullyng, fighting, drinking, smoking, steeling cars, taking drugs, but we don't understand they can feel love. Is it because we don't feel it, is it because we created the world full of violence, killing, torturing, and want them to fit in it? And do we envy them because we are older and we have those romantic feelings no more, so is it our jealousy that expects them to live in this dirty violent world we made for ourselves, and proclaims everything else forbidden, immoral, unacceptable, or at least controversial?

You were raised "puritan" sounds like. My parents we very liberal then, even though we were catholics. I had freedom to explore my sexuality in that time, like all my peers. I was smart with protecting myself. My views have changed somewhat, because I consider myself a christian, but I'm not going to be ignorant about young people and their harmones. I remember how I felt when I was young. I don't believe in raising my kids where they cannot be honest and hide everything. Not healthy.

Dogtown chica por vida!

Do not assume that attitudes in the USA apply elsewhere. They do not. The USA is uniquely puritanical amongst European and European-descended countries.

The American fear of nudity is combined with a sexualisation of children. In most other countries - including Muslim countries - child nudity and often adult nudity is regarded as non-contentious and not inherently sexual. There are movies made by Moslems which feature non-sexual nudity - Child of the Terraces is one that comes to mind. Whereas in the USA all nudity is regarded as sexual, and baby girls are made to wear bras lest anyone see their non-existent breasts. Americans are weird.

Unfortunately the US dominates the film industry. That is a pity because Hollywood has some serious issues. 1. It is controlled by Jews. That means that the worldwide film industry is heavily influenced by Jews. As a consequence we see Jewish "humour"(AKA filth and vulgarity) instead of comedy; the promotion of a distorted view of the Middle East and world history generally; and an obsession with ridiculing and denigrating Nazis. 2. Puritanism. American puritanism is particularly hypocritical, since Americans are at once the most immoral and the most superficially Christian people. 3. Propaganda. If Hollywood was to be believed, the USA is the best country in the world, and we all envy America. The reality is that most of us pity the poor egotistical, self-centred fatties that live in the US of A.

Back to you comments, nudity was commonplace in American films until the Hayes Code. It was only in the 1960's that nudity started to return. But the rest of the world was never covered by this American rule. Nudity was never considered sinful.

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Nice movie, yes first love is sweet, but they were a bit too young, barely out of childhood.