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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- Something You Can Use This Week: Brand New Discussions that Get Kids Talking-Our New Movie Reviews and Quick Q’s Page
- Youth Culture Window: Hollywood’s Take on Relationships-The Relationship Lessons of Movies in the Theatres Right Now
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Our brand new Movie Reviews and Quick Q’s page (also on our TheSource4Parents.com page) does just that. Now we do more than just sharing our two cents about the films we review-we also provide you with discussion questions to ask kids about what they just saw-a great free resource!
Some New Reviews and Q’s We Just Added:
Do you know what’s playing at a theater near you?
A Deteriorating View of Relationships
Parents and youth workers know this best: one of the biggest influences in life – if not the biggest – is the quality of relationships we keep. But a quick look through the lenses of culture reveals a greatly cheapened understanding of relationships compared to those of yesteryear.
How people treat others is changing. In fact, how people are encouraged to treat others is changing. In many of today’s relationships, things like commitment, loyalty, and respect are on the endangered species list.
But that’s not the way it’s always been. Where is this new trend coming from? Who’s modeling this new (and lesser) understanding of relationships? Both of those questions can be answered in one word: media.
If you don’t believe me, just take a look at three films playing on movie screens in your towns right now. See if their presentation of relationships is familiar to your understanding, or whether the lessons they’re promoting are (very) different from those you’ve known in the past.
Movie #1: Hall Pass
The movie’s official website offers a “unique” take on problem-solving within marriages. Here’s how the production company describes their film:
Elsewhere on the site, the film defines Hall Pass as, “A week off from marriage to do whatever you want without consequences.” The film’s “green band” trailer (for all audiences) reveals the comedic trouble the guys quickly find themselves in as they go in search of babes. A “red band” trailer (for restricted audiences requiring age authentication) exists as well, showing why the movie fully earns its rating of R for “crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.”
Hall Pass was released on February 25, 2011 and raked in $13.5 million during its opening weekend. And what did teenagers who saw the movie learn about relationships?
- 1. When men (or women, for that matter) can’t control themselves, they should just be given whatever they crave.
- 2. The promises made between a man and a woman during their wedding ceremony can be put on pause.
- 3. Our actions do not have to have consequences attached to them.
These “gems” are just a few of the lessons highlighted in Hall Pass. Of course, viewers will also see…
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Jonathan McKee
Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.