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Lawsuit over Brokeback Mountain in class
Kd5000:
I like how money is attached as comfort to the traumatized youth. Half a million can buy alot of psychological therapy. What are they going to do with the money. Are the parents wanting to put it aside for college savings. Can I sue my school because we had to watch DELIVERANCE in 9th grade. Male rape, things of that nature was involved. Like it was just a movie. Still not as boring :( as BLESS THE BEAST AND THE CHILDREN which we watched latter in the schol year.
Greed and moral hysteria seem to be making the legal system somewhat of a joke.
HerrKaiser:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on May 14, 2007, 07:50:03 pm ---I like how money is attached as comfort to the traumatized youth. Half a million can buy alot of psychological therapy. What are they going to do with the money. Are the parents wanting to put it aside for college savings. Can I sue my school because we had to watch DELIVERANCE in 9th grade. Male rape, things of that nature was involved. Like it was just a movie. Still not as boring :( as BLESS THE BEAST AND THE CHILDREN which we watched latter in the schol year.
Greed and moral hysteria seem to be making the legal system somewhat of a joke.
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Yes, and welcome to the so-called American justice system which is not about justice, but legalites. The real damages in most cases are small dollars; the big numbers come from 'pain and suffering' etc and from hot coffee on one's lap to fear of sex afer falling of a cable car, lawyers will sue for anything anytime to get insurance money...and schools have deep pocketed insurance policies. I guarantee that if the movie were seen by the same girl at the local bingo club, no such lawsuit would be filed.
Sadly, whether its viewed as right wing or left wing radicals, everyone has jumped in the bandwagon of suing for pain and suffering damages. President Bush no more created the litigious society we have than he created global warming. In fact, the vast majority of trial lawyers are registered democrats.
I believe the stat last year was that the dollars won and gained via settlement in lawsuits was over 20% of the GNP. First, Americans worked for their money; then divorced for it, now they sue for it. And it seems to be getting worse.
serious crayons:
BTW, there are currently at least four very active threads buzzing away at imdb over this one issue. The funny thing is, almost everybody, there and here, agrees on two basic principles:
-- The teacher showed bad judgement.
-- The parents are overreacting.
(Well, OK, not everybody at imdb agrees on the latter. :laugh: But most reasonable people do.)
The differences center mainly around which of the two principles people choose to emphasize in their posts. Was the teacher really wrong, or are the parents really wrong? But the thing is, both ideas are right -- that is, both teacher and parents are wrong! And the two ideas can peacefully coexist!
Not only that, but both of the above ideas can coexist with the notion that children should learn (at school, at home, on the streetcorner, on late-night talk shows) not to be homophobic. Showing BBM to a class of unprepared 13-year-olds is obviously not the best way to accomplish this. But as long as there are parents who feel they're owed $500,000 because their daugher WAS required to watch it and was traumatized by it, there's obviously still a lot of work to be done.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on May 14, 2007, 11:30:27 pm ---BTW, there are currently at least four very active threads buzzing away at imdb over this one issue.
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Update: Make that SIX very active threads at imdb.
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: Phillip Dampier on May 15, 2007, 09:37:35 am ---The suit claims Jessica continues to suffer from emotional distress caused by watching the film and is currently undergoing psychological treatment and counseling.
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Hello?! Twenty-first Century - anyone home??!
For that money they should all move to Europe!
Brokeback Mountain Certification: Netherlands:12 / Sweden:7 / Spain:13 / Finland:K-11 / France:U / Portugal:M-12 / Norway:11 / Germany:12 / Belgium:KT / Iceland:12
j. U. d. E.
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