Who objects to nudity?
Who objects to nudity in this kind of film? Sure its playful but dont you think its inappropriate in these days?
You have a point, but you have to remember that the film was depicting events that took place around 1900 when child nudity didn't have the same connotation that it has now because of child pornography. Skinnydipping was more common back then among children. There was no air conditioning or bathing suits as such so it was more common for young people to swim naked in a river or pool in order to cool off in the summer.
share.. Also this film was made in 1989 and in France and to be honnest there was no backlash to those scenes at the time (from what I remember). As a kid myself when I saw it in the cinema, it didnt even really register that there might be something wrong with those scenes , I just thought ok they are taking a shower and left it at that lol Now with that said , I do believe that if this film was made now , those scenes would have been in the cutting room floor.
shareThe problem is that today, child nudity is regarded as pornography, whereas thirty or forty years ago, it wasn't. For instance, in the 1970s, naturist magazines containing family photos of adults and children in nudist colonies were legally on sale, but these days, any such magazine containing nude photos of children would be illegal. The law, which is completely and totally bonkers on this subject, keeps changing the goal posts where child porn is concerned. A definition of it used to be 'Any child engaged in sexual activity by themselves or with other children or adults'.
Fair enough. But these days, simple child nudity is regarded in law as pornography. Perhaps before all this present day paranoia about child porn burns itself out, it will one day become illegal to possess any photo or image of a child whether they are clothed or unclothed and any parent who takes a perfectly innocent family photo of their children in the park or down at the beach will find themselves arrested and thrown in jail.
However, regarding totally innocent child nudity in this or any other feature film made for the cinema, millions of people have seen them and vast numbers of people have bought the DVDs quite legally. So, as the police can't arrest everyone who has ever seen the film at the cinema or bought the DVD, they turn a blind eye to it. A general rule of thumb as to what constitutes child porn in a film such as this is if it turns the judge on, it's porn. If it doesn't, it isn't.
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