Some talk in the blogosphere about a letter to the editor in last week's News-Sentinel. Here's the relevant excerpt:
On Oct. 21, I took my 10-year-old daughter to see the movie “Dreamer” at the Rave theatre in Fort Wayne. This is a PG-rated, feel-good family movie. Unfortunately, the previews were not. The Rave showed a preview for a movie about child prostitution. This appalling clip openly talked about children having sex and being sold for sex, showed a grown man pulling the top off a young girl and had several other young girls half-naked on a bed with men approaching them. My daughter looked up at me and said, “Dad, should I close my eyes?” It was disgusting and inappropriate to display at a movie made for kids and families.
Leo Morris uses the letter in a post about the loss of innocence, writing:
The letter is so sad not because of the single episode it describes, but because it symbolizes the whole mess of a world we've created for our children. Parents try to keep their kids in a PG world as long as possible -- they pay attention and do all the right things -- only to have to R-rated world forced upon them when they least expect it by other adults who can't see beyond their own selfish pursuits.
Indiana Parley then noted Leo's post.
Here's the question I have: what was the movie trailer in question? The man who wrote the letter doesn't include that information. I'd like to know so I can go look at the trailer and judge its inappropriateness myself. If any of you went to see Dreamer and saw the same preview, please leave a comment with the name of the film or an actor or actress you recognized. That would be enough for me to go find a copy of the trailer online so that we can all see it for ourselves.
One of the reasons I'm curious to look at the trailer is because the MPAA (which gives movies their ratings) previews all trailers and the ones you see in a theater have usually been approved by the group for all audiences. That's what makes this particular letter to the editor so perplexing.
UPDATE: The trailer in question, for a Lifetime mini-series called "Human Trafficking." (Thanks to several readers for their assistance.)
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