The ban on young people under 16 to watch movies in Quebec Naomi said yes provokes misunderstanding of the production team. The latter thinks that the feature film, in which Kelly Depeault plays a teenage prostitute, should on the contrary be seen by the youngest to raise their awareness.
I was still stunned and a little incredulousproducer Patricia Bergeron’s explanation of rating maintenance 16 and more decided by the Directorate of Business Services and Film Classification of the Ministry of Culture and Communications (MCC).
We are in a collective blindness. We prefer to bury a truth [celle de la prostitution juvénile] not to see him.
In a letter to review committee members Wednesday, Louis Dussault, president of distributors of K-Films America, called the decision a acts of pure moral censorship.
Direk Geneviève Albert’s frustration is even greater as 13-15 year olds can be seen Naomi said yes for several months on the platforms as this film was made to be watched in theaters and sexuality was more suggested there than graphical exposure.
There are a lot of things off the screen that we don’t showassured Patricia Bergeron.
The rise of disturbing images according to the committee
In its decision, the Review Committee recognizes that most sexual activity is suggested and takes place outside of the camera at Naomi said yes “girls under 16 can be warned of the consequences of prostitution”.
In classifying the film in the category of 16 years and over, the reviewers-classifiers selected climate of psychological physical violence of the film and the fact that it is a detailed catalog of often despicable and evil acts, positions and practices.
Even Naomi said yes not glorifying prostitution and avoiding making the teenager erotic, it still contains an accumulation of sexual situations that spread cruelly and relentlessly in the third part of the filmthey added, still according to the review committee document.
Members of this committee also expressed concerns about the film’s effects on young viewers.
The exemplary educational goals of the work do not diminish the impact of the images on most teenagers, because the distribution of Naomi said yes go beyond educational frameworks.
Most young viewers aged 13 to 15 have not yet acquired the tools necessary to capture the overly disturbing images and receive the raw treatment offered in the film. Naomi said yesand this can impair their developmentconclusion of the committee.
Out of step with the reality of young people in 2022?
According to Louis Dussault, this conclusion is highly biased[e] through an out of phase Judeo-Christian ideology. Young people today, from the age of 13, have their first sexual experiencesHe added.
Patricia Bergeron also thinks the Department of Business Services and Film Classification’s judgment is inconsistent with the reality experienced by 13-15 year olds.
People are in front of all screens and social networks, in front of all possible and imaginable images, and the ones we can’t imagine.
A few weeks before the Canadian Grand Prix
Another argument according to the film’s crew: the average age of entry into prostitution is 14, according to a document from the Council for the Status of Women since 2012.
In a few weeks, a big car race will take place [le Grand Prix du Canada] and hundreds of young women are in the beds of large hotels waiting for their customers, but both girls are not allowed to see Naomi said yesLouis Dussault protested in his letter.
This text was written from an interview conducted by Catherine Richer, cultural columnist on the show At 15-18. Comments can be edited for clarity and brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
