Suitable for kids?
I heard there is a scene at the end of the movie. How bad is it? Is it suitable for a 9 year old?
shareThere is indeed a scene at the end of the movie. There is also a scene at the beginning of the movie, and in between there are a great many scenes. This is the normal situation in movies. Do you not watch many?
As to how "bad" it is, I think it's fair to say that the film received a critical mauling at the time, but recently has experienced some positive reappraisals. Some have even seen it as an influence on the work of Baz Luhrmann. So, in answer to your question, "not as bad as we thought at first".
And finally, the killer q, "is it suitable for a 9 year old". Well, that really depends on the 9 year old in question. If he or she has been brought up in a culturally stimulating environment, with access to different movies, books, music etc, then I don't think there's anything that could cause alarm. If, however, the child has been brought up in some loony fundamentalist backwater, the sort of place where people suffered spontaneous explosive diarrhoea when Janet Jackson had her wardrobe malfunction, then he'll probably need deep and searching therapy for many years, especially after the bit with Tenpole Tudor in it.
Hope this helps.
Wow. Even six and a half years later, this still reads like condescending art-school crap, written by somebody who is every bit as fundamentalist as the worst fundamentalist, in terms of projecting one value system as the true and pure one.
It'd be interesting to know whether this attitude has only hardened to the point of petrification, or whether you've learned to be somewhat more tolerant of other ideas of how to raise kids and what is appropriate for them at certain ages -- other ideas besides your own, I mean.