Just Because It has the Word “Girl” in The Title Does Not Mean It Is a Kid’s Movie

Months ago while we were playing Mah Jongg my friend Mary Lloyd announced that Gone Girl was opening at the movies on Oct. 3 and said that we should go see it. I put a note in my calendar, but no real plans were made in June for a movie date in October. Fast-forward to the beginning of the week and Mary Lloyd says she has bought the tickets for the first showing at 10:45 in the morning.

Well the date was in my calendar and no other pressing engagements had come up so I thought, What the hell, I have not been to the movies in months, I can do my walking later so I certainly can allow myself to slip into a dark theatre in the morning and watch a world class socio-path.

As the seven movie trailers played, first one for a romantic comedy, then a war, then romance, then sci-fi, another romance it dawned on me that going to the movies in the morning is no faster than going at night. I don’t know why I thought it would be more efficient. I should have realized when we were not the only ones at the movie that opening day of a big-time, much anticipated movie is exactly the place that every future movie wants to have a preview. Since Gone Girl is rated R for the very reasons they came up with R, sex and violence, it can show previews of other very R rated movies.

Around the fifth preview an older woman holding her phone in flash light mode came walking across the front of the theatre dragging a small girl by the hand. They bumped their way up the steps right past us to settle two rows behind us on the back corner. There the grandmother type, laid her phone to rest on the banister, light facing up so she had enough illumination to change the diaper of the toddler all the while shooting and sex played on the screen.

I will not be a spoiler to what goes on in Gone Girl, but I will say that it is graphic enough and blatantly disturbing to cause horrific nightmares in any human, but possibly do permanent damage to a two year old watching it. I am praying that this older woman is not the Grandmother of this child and was just an emergency one time only sitter for this child because the idea that anyone who loved this little girl thought it was OK to bring a child that young to an R rated movie means that this child has no chance in life.

When I watch movies about truly disturbed people I wonder how authors came up with such horrible characters. Now I know how. They probably were exposed to these things in their own homes at young ages. So old lady, don’t bring a child to an R-rated movie. Just because it has the word Girl in the title does not mean it is a movie for girls. Oh yeah, one more thing, diapers should be changed someplace private. That kid was big enough to be potty trained, but since she wasn’t she was big enough to learn that we don’t show other people our private parts in public. And thus socio-paths are born.