Post by medibot on Nov 16, 2006 17:15:33 GMT
On Saturday night i came home surprisingly early from football and decided that i would mark rememberence day by watching the Channel 4 programme "The Somme" as it would require spending a large amount of my evening reflecting on peoples sacrifices and generally paying my respects.
This docu-drama history programme is a particular favourite of schoolteachers wanting to drum into kids what all the fuss is about due to the rather detailed and graphic account of all three sides in Battle from personal perspectives. My little brother has been shown it in school.
It is rather shockingly violent because funnily enough, so is war.
About half way through there is an advert break and as we return to the programme, the Channel 4 lady apologies for the language in the previous segment...
This means that somebody, somewhere, has phoned in to complain about swearing before the watershed.
Fair enough you might think, children could (and bloody should be) watching but as the previous section of the programme involved British soldiers being mown down in no mans land, a rather graphic shot of one being shot in the head being particularly harrowing, along with some rather unpleasant bayonet usage and point blank shooting of enemy soldiers, you really do wonder what planet these people are on.
How can you be fine with watching people get shot (albiet in a reconstruction) but offended by swearing, swearing from men who know they will probably die in the next twenty minutes?
Madness...
This docu-drama history programme is a particular favourite of schoolteachers wanting to drum into kids what all the fuss is about due to the rather detailed and graphic account of all three sides in Battle from personal perspectives. My little brother has been shown it in school.
It is rather shockingly violent because funnily enough, so is war.
About half way through there is an advert break and as we return to the programme, the Channel 4 lady apologies for the language in the previous segment...
This means that somebody, somewhere, has phoned in to complain about swearing before the watershed.
Fair enough you might think, children could (and bloody should be) watching but as the previous section of the programme involved British soldiers being mown down in no mans land, a rather graphic shot of one being shot in the head being particularly harrowing, along with some rather unpleasant bayonet usage and point blank shooting of enemy soldiers, you really do wonder what planet these people are on.
How can you be fine with watching people get shot (albiet in a reconstruction) but offended by swearing, swearing from men who know they will probably die in the next twenty minutes?
Madness...
