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An eight year old has killed himself after watching a Tom Cruise movie
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What kind of parent lets their eight year old watch a 15 rated movie?
Boy of eight hanged himself after he saw samurai film
Boy of eight hanged himself after he saw samurai film
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Very sad but I think he must have had some deeper underlying problems.
But as you said, the parents are responsible.
Only glanced over this story, sounds like more of the whole movies/games are driving our kids to kill people (themselves in this case). I've no time for it !
I do often wonder how many people on this site reads the daily mail online ...
A fair few, I'd imagine.
I was allowed to watch/play 15 and 18 certificated films and games long before I was that age but I was never stupid enough to re-enact them.
Besides, unless i'm very much mistaken, the way in which this boy killed himself (hanging isn't even depicted in The Last Samurai so I can hardly see how this film is to blame.
Boy of eight hanged himself after he saw samurai film
Well you obviously haven't done, or you wouldn't have posted here!:p
Has a daily mail journalist taken a storey ou of coxtext?
Yes, ofcouse as usual.
Nobody hangs themselves in any of the movies he owns, but the one movie he owns with any suicides, the samauri movie, only features people stabbing themselves (typical japanese ritual suicide)
The daily mail just want to further the believe that games and movies lead to serious violence and actions.
Yes they influence people to some extent but the belief that a movie, by itself could influence anyone to commit suicide, even an eight year old, is completely ludicrous.
As someone in the dailymail comments said, I have been playing gta since I was about ten, I have never commited any of the many, many crimes fetured in that game and displayed as normal.
They could obviously influence those with mental challenges whose parents would obviously be taking more care anyway.
I have also had suicidal tendencies after watching anything with Tom Cruise in it!
On a serious note, it is a tragedy that anybody, adolescent or not, should feel that way after watching a film, regardless of age ( I watched some shit when I was young), I think that things are not all that they seem.
ETA: SCUM Was a bloody nasty film when I was young
Frankly, this type of story harks back to the Mary Whitehouse years, and that woman blathering on that Tom and Jerry cartoons would turn kids into homicidal maniacs.
Anyway is it really suicide when you don't intend to do it? I thought they called that "death by misadventure". Even the Mail doesn't say it was suicide.
He's killed himself, so I would consider suicide. I know the boy was only eight but he surely knew that tying a rope around his neck was dangerous, at least I did when I was eight.
Btw, my 7 year old niece watched Scream which is an 18 and she wasn't even scared lol
The DM talking royal crap again...
Perhaps, for example, he was sick of hearing his mum and dad arguing or perhaps he was sick of his brother picking on him but let's all tell ourselves that it was Tom Cruises fault, eh?
Saves us having to look at any less pleasant possibilities.
It's only recorded as suicide if there was a note, usually.
How quaintly 1990s. I thought the fad these days was to blame videogames.
Keep up. It's social networking sites now.
Oh that's right, that's the new source of the world's evils.
Even though both the police and the general public used these sites to effectively track down and arrest the rioters and looters but hey let's not let fact get in the way of political rhetoric!
Not just if there was a note but if it is proved that the person intended to take their own life, that it wasn't someone messing around or a cry for help.
Something like the 8yr old's death would likely be recoreded as missadventure
That's quite funny really, because I've never played GTA, yet I regularly sell drugs, murder people, have sex with prostitutes, steal cars and blow up buildings.
It must be all those Doris Day musicals that I watch.
Second possibility is the auto erotic asphyxia. But I don't know if kids start masturbating that early, seems too soon, but these days who knows.