Book Morals

Today in Socratic, we talked about book and movie morals and what would we call a good book or movie.
Books, I think are harder to judge because they have no ratings on them so when you pick it up you won't be able to see whether or not it'll contain explicit sexual content which I have no desire to read about. But usually, the ones I read are pretty good...meaning that there's no explicit sex, strong foul language or explicit gory violence.
As far as movies are concerned, I've been taught (relecently) by my dad that not all R movies are bad. What I mean by that is no sex, no strong laguage, same thing as the book. There are alot of good historical movies that are R rated but are acctually pretty good since it's showing you exactly what happened...for the most part. Those of who know me know I'm LDS and must be thinking now, "Alex! You Sinner! The Prophets have said not to watch R rated movies!" Yeah. I know. But what I've figured is they say that so no one takes it the wrong way. My family just chooses to use decernment in R rated movies whether or not it should be watched.

When the passion of the Christ came out, there was a big outburst from the church members whether or not to watch it. The High Counselors considered it and told the church, "Use discernment."

Now, with that being said, would I go and watch a movie like Hot Fuzz? No. Because I have no reason to watch a vulgarous movie. Would I watch a movie like Braveheart? Definitley. Because It has historical value and was artfully done.