to not let my 14 year old to watch an 18 even if it is for English

[Mrsjay]

DD2 English teacher has said if they had it they could maybe watch an over 18 film because they are reading another book is by the same author, I am really not comfortable with her reading the book anyway but I certainly dont want her to watch the film,

That sounds like a good way to do it whathas.

Rather than just saying "you might want to watch this as it has the same author" with no explanation at all, which seems to be what has happened here.

I just would hate for an under-18 student to watch an 18+ film at a teacher's suggestion, if that film contained a difficult image or images that the student really didn't need to be seeing right now because of their personal circumstances.

I honestly don't think children should be encouraged to watch something age inappropriate - I had completely forgotten about the other subjects in Trainspotting apart from the drugs.

They wouldn't be allowed to watch it if it was on at at the cinema so a teacher shouldn't be suggesting it imo.

My ds had never heard of Sixth Sense until his English Teacher mentioned it - no I'm the bad guy for not letting him

Yes LineRunner, that's a point.

And, let's face it, the child who is likely to have personal experience of the sort of themes in Trainspotting is likely to be the child whose parents aren't going supervise their online film watching, so they are likely to watch it if suggested by the teacher.

Oh no Valium bet that really wound you up what age is he ? not that it matters but they really shouldn't say anything, I did tell dd2 what was in the trainspotting she did a ewwwy face so I have oput her off dd1 would have been al over the film but she is well hard and she was 16/17

There is a BBC adaptation of Junk, maybe watch that?

He was 10 at the time and ds asked for written permission so she could show it in class - no pressure then

I watched Trainspotting when I was 14 and it put me off ever trying drugs!

He was 10 at the time and ds asked for written permission so she could show it in class - no pressure then

erm none at all 10 really I hated 6th sense well I liked it but

Poor ds wouldn't have slept for a year if he'd watched that!

It's the cot death scene. Imagine seeing that.

English teacher here too. I wouldn't show an 18, unless doing Film Studies at A Level...

Sorry, imagine seeing that if it had directly affected you, your family.

I had completely forgotten about the under age sex story as well.

Is the book not just as explicit-violent-disturbing-sexualised as the film of Trainspotting?

I suppose I would let my 14yo watch SOME of Trainspotting, just not all.

I think it's an ace film.

Line yes awful

It is an ace film - when you are old enough to watch!

I wouldn't want to show Platoon to a group of teenagers unless I was sure they knew what was in it, which they can't know until they've watched it.

The rape stuff, I would worry about.

It is a brilliant film the book is much better not for a 14 yr old though ,

I can't remember if I have seen platoon or not ? there was a spate of those films hamburger hill and full metal jacket which I found really grim.

My niece is 14, and I agree with your views.

My niece had done a History (?) topic at school on Jack the Ripper (at 13) and found it terribly amusing talking over dinner about the gruesome stuff that he did. This was in front of my 5 year old. She clearly didn't have the maturity to handle the topic appropriately.

Many early teens are scatty, and could take a film like Trainspotting at surface value, which isn't how it should be viewed. Mature Year 11's could watch this film, I believe, but 14 is a tad too young.

They are all amazing films.

I just think that when we recommend that under-18s to watch them, it is with a fair bit of prior warning and hand-holding.

A lot of under-18s have painful personal experience of sexual assault, cot death, violence and drugs; and I don't think that that's always fully appreciated.

Exactly line Runner it is ok for people to say well I let my child watch X Y Z but i don't think children who watch films like that are equipped to understand them and can't process what they are watching (does that make sense )

I just have a horrible vision of a teacher saying, 'This film [Trainspotting] has something interesting in it about heroin / script / mannerisms', and not even realise that a 14 year old might have a very personal story internalised about, say, losing a younger sibling.

You can probably tell this is a bit personal for me.

Yes, LR.

ds1 watched it, and only saw the glamorisation of drug use, he missed the whole point of it and thought it was mostly funny .

dd watched part of it (unfortunately ds1 had recorded it and I didn't realise) last year when she was 15 and was very upset, decided to stop watching and asked me about it.