You Gotta Wonder

Hey Y'all,

I've spent all day watching Live 8 and it has been great. I don't want to go too much into that, except for saying the two best were Madonna and Pink Floyd, by far the best.

Here is the subject of this post. Saving Private Ryan the tremendous film by Steven Speilberg is playing now on TNT. I just heard the F-Word about five times, and forgot that it was basic cable. Why is this okay? I don't get it. You can't say about fifteen things on TV and the F-Word is one of them. Why can I hear it in this context? Because it is history or realistic. I already despise the amount of cursing I hear on TV anymore. You get commercials with ass in them, you get promo's with bleeps. When did this become okay? I can't stand it because it is slack vocabulary.

The difference comes in when we do stop censoring things like Saving Private Ryan, and censor things like Go. Go is a movie made by Doug Liman about kids in LA going to a rave and taking some drugs. Its about drug dealers and their clients, and guys having a good time. You will not find this movie uncensored on TV because of its reality. Saving Private Ryan is equally as good a movie as Go in my honest opinion. Both were absolute triumphs in reality and in movie making. I felt as if I understood WWII better by seeing Ryan, but I also related heavily with Go.

Why is one better than the other? War is better respected than partying I understand, but both are just movies. Both tackle subjects of everyday life. Why don't we get Black Hawk Down unedited? Why don't I see Apocolypse Now with all of its language, or Good Morning Vietnam?

I bet if Go were played tomorrow on TV it wouldn't even get bleeps like the rest of the regular TV world gets just for emphasis.

I guess my second question is which is worse to show to kids drug use or war? Neither are pretty sights.