A 13-year old kid with a pistol who says "cock?" This is what's making a stir??
First of all, anyone who thinks young kids don't curse like hung over sailors fighting each other in the dark has clearly never spent time with young kids. My students can even impress me with their ability to cuss a blue streak, and I can self-conjugate the word "fuck" about as thoroughly as anyone I know.
Gun? Meh. At least this is in a superhero movie, being used by a nominal hero in pursuit of nominal justice. I'd be more concerned about the 13-year old who spends six hours a day playing GTA, blowing away dealers and whores for the extra score. But there's no real sense getting anybody's knickers in a twist over an R-rated movie.
Frankly, as far as I can see, if one's kid's vices are limited to R-rated movies, that's a miracle and a blessing.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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