Parents Fear Hunger Games

This article was very interesting in explaining the struggle between parents and their children to see the movie "Hunger Games". It made good points in showing why the movie may be inappropriate for children who want to see it. although the children have read the book, i agree that a movie would be much more terrifying and traumatic to children than words on a page. Reading about horror may be hard for children as well, but seeing the violence take place right infront of them could be so much harder to handle. The article also made the point that one child wanted to see it because if their parents did not take them to see it, it meant that they weren't 'cool'. The struggle of peer pressure shows up at that age and when a child hears that their friends saw a movie and their parent wont let them, they don't feel like they can do what their peers can, which makes them feel left out. I agree that this movie may be inappropriate for younger kids because so many of them could not handle the graphic nature of this movie. Even in the UK, they required the distributor to cut out a part of the movie in order for them to allow twelve year olds see it. without cutting that part out, they would have increased the age to fifteen.