Hounddog debate

For those of you who don't know what hounddog is, it is a movie at the sundance film festival starring Child Actor Dakota Fanning. The movie takes place in the 1960s where Dakota fanning is living in the south who has little supervision from her abusive father and alcoholic mother. The film has created much controversy since their is a rape scene with miss Fanning.

Reading multiple stories about this film hearing all the pros and cons. I am on the side with the director and actors of the film. Reading the director's comments, who is a woman, wanted to make this movie because their is a lot of woman who were raped or sexually abused at a young age and this movie was to show people that this stuff still happens and that it needs to be addressed.

film, theatre, music, and other forms of artistic entertainment are a mirror. It shows us the culture we live in and/or it shows us where we are going. For example look at films like dr. Strangelove and b-movies. those films were made during the height of the cold war. most of the monster movies made during that time, the monsters exist because of nuclear waste dumped in a lake, or people with these multiple eyes coming from a village that was bombed by nukes. If you look at out world today there are always specials on about sexual predators who chat with young girls and sexually assault them.

I think that the critics of the film, especially the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, should be doing more to help solve the problem by addressing these issues and give funding to organizations that do deal with this issue and try to resolve it.

I think that art is a way to help educate and motivate people do help out in our society and if the director's vision is to show people this sensitive issue and to move the audience into taking action to stop this problem before it becomes an epidemic, then i am all for it.

Here is a link to one of the many articles on this movie: The trouble with hounddog.