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In this case study, I will be discussing the parental guidance rating for the film Never let me go. The film was released in 2010, it was directed by Mark Romanek.Never let me go is a science-fiction drama film that tells the story of cloned children who are called ‘special’, these children are cloned and sent to a school specifically for cloned children, they have been clone for the sole purpose of donating their vital organs to other non-cloned humans. They are not considered as human beings. In the film, they are thought of as not having a soul. These cloned children grow to a certain age when they have to start donating all their vital organs whether they like it or not. The fact that these children are cloned is not even stated anywhere in the film and this has misled people into thinking these are actual children being brought up in a school just to end up dying because they have to give up all their vital organs. Only after one does research about the film does one find out that these are not actual children. The film was rated pg13 but the content of the film can possible harm …show more content…
content of a film under this category can also be viewed by anyone else who is older. In these categories, there are aspects that are especially taken into consideration, aspects that cause harm such as discrimination, drugs, imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, threat and violence. The occurrence of nudity, sex, bad language or negative imitable behaviour must be very minimal or ‘infrequent’ if there is any at all. In relation to drugs and discrimination, content should clearly disapprove of the abuse of drugs and also discrimination. In relation to violence, violence must be very minimal and must not be displayed in a way that glorifies it. An good example of this would be slapstick comedy where violence is portrayed as unrealistic and intentionally meant to create humour and

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