Brainstorming the film 'The Butterfly Effect'

1. To what extent is family important as the first agent of socialization?
2. How far-reaching is the peer-group socialization?
3. Reflect on the observations below: -

a)      ‘The average American child spends 5 hours a day in front of a television set.’

b)     ‘It has been estimated that children see as many as 20,000 murders by the time they reach 16.’                                           Brinkerhoff, David. Sociology

1. What do the feminists theories advocate regarding gender bias?
2. Reflect on the observation:-

a)      ‘Young men who are exposed to sexually explicit materials for one hour per week for six weeks become more callous toward women’ (Check,1985;  Zillman & Bryant,1982)

b)     ‘One in five children between ages of 10& 17 … received a sexual solicitation over the internet in 1999…’ KimberlyJ.Mitchell, Youth & Society, March 2003

1. How can the ‘rape myth’ legitimize rape?
2. Will censorship on pornography restrict the freedom of the press?
3. Where to draw a line between nude statues in the park and the extremes of sexual sadism?
4. How does ‘hedonism’ impact society?

10.  How can an innocent visual stimulus in childhood transcend fantasy & undermine real intimacy in adulthood?

11.  Ethics: Multi-billion industries will continue to thrive on child pornography, why?

12.  Why the nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe is pornographic in Hustler, not inLife?

13.  What is pornography? How does it lead to sexual violence?

14.  Will you call Michelangelo’s David pornographic?

15.  Literature: Is Pauline Reage’s Story of O indecent? 

16.  Literature: Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple: story of Celie, raped by the man she calls “father” ; her long pain-stricken letters to God…

17.  Art: Is M.F.Hussain’s painting on Saraswati ‘indecent’?  Or Pablo Picasso, Le Rêve (The Dream). 1932, oil on canvas vulgar?

18.  Should literary works be censored? – D.H.Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, James Joyce’s Ulysses,  poetry in the Bhakti Movement, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, to mention a few.

19.  The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. Why?

20.  Reflect: -

a)      Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso