PG-13 victim
Kenneth TURAN’S article on film violence (“Blood, No Guts,” Nov. 2) was the most courageous and well-reasoned statement on this topic that I have ever read, and I am going to hand it out to my college students as an example of superb, balanced social criticism. I agree with him about the absurdity of the rating system. I only wish he had mentioned PG-13 films. As a parent, I have been duped into taking my children to numerous PG-13 films only to find that they contained adult-level violence and sexuality. The James Bond movies routinely get PG-13 ratings, despite their gratuitous violence and casual sex. One Bond film to which I took my oldest son opened with a collage of naked dancing women in silhouette as the title credits rolled.
Ray E. Hardesty
Montrose
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