To think that parents should've been informed before the film Love Actually was shown during a Yr7 music lesson?

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My DS 11 came home from school yesterday and said he'd watched Love Actually during one of his lessons.

He said it was ok, some of it was funny and there was lots of laughing during the sex scenes.

I haven't seen the film for a long time but I do remember several scenes where a couple are simulating sex for a porn movie (I think).

We have a very open relationship and have discussed sex and porn, so he knows about it but has only seen sex during sex education lessons. And I believe that's drawings? Although I could be wrong!

AIBU to think the school should've got parents permission, or at least informed them, before showing this movie? I would've given my permission but perhaps other parents wouldn't have been happy.

I thought you were going to object on the grounds of vacuous misogyny and it being a generally shite film. The scenes with Martin Freeman playing the world’s least likely porn stand in would bother me less than the general message that men are creeps are women are trophies or tragic casualties.

Yabu because the music and soundtrack to love actually is amazing!

However it is a bit grown up for yr 7 but not massively I would say

Yabu

YANBU, because it’s shite, and because of the classification. Did they watch the whole thing in lieu of someone doing some actual teaching?

YANBU it's a shit film.

It’s a 15 certificate but, given its age it probably would be a 12 now and has been shown on TV before the watershed. It wouldn’t bother me.

I'm more concerned for the teacher.. Imagine having to control the giggling of a whole class of 12 year olds watching a simulated blow job.And she has her boobs out.Did he really show them those scenes??

When my child went to secondary school, I realised that they don't get permission to show films even if the age rating is older than the children they are showing them to. I always presumed they would have to but if they are meant to, they definitely don't. It's a none issue to me but I can imagine some parents would have a problem with it.

Yanbu. It has a 15 certificate. I don't think they should be showing it to pupils under 15.

Are you sure they watched the whole thing not an edited version?

Its a bit of a 'marmite' movie - you either love it or hate it!

Going on what my DS told me, I believe they were shown the full movie.

YANBU, the school should not be showing 15 films to 11/12 year olds.

The 12 classification was in place in 2003 - if BBFC had thought it deserved a 12 rating, they'd have given it one. BBFC comments on its 15 rating are:

LOVE, ACTUALLY is a UK romantic comedy, from 2003, following the love lives of various couples in the lead-up to Christmas.

SEX
A man and a woman are seen simulating various sexual acts on the set of a porn film, although they behave in a completely disinterested fashion throughout; there is some breast nudity. The film also contains a variety of verbal sex references.

LANGUAGE
Occasional strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder bad language including 'wank', 'prick', 'shit', 'piss', 'bollocks', 'bloody', 'bugger' and 'screw'.

There is some brief breast nudity and some verbal references to drug misuse.

The film is 2hr 25 mins. That’s a long music lesson.

awwww Its a lovely Christmas film. But it's quite long. Was it some kind of last school day before the holiday treat? It seems an odd choice ?

Cautionsharpblade - I hadn't even thought about the length of the movie! I'll ask him later if they watched it to the end.

wtf?

I mean the important thing to remember is that missing even one day of school can permanently destroy your DC's education....

meanwhile in schools they are busy letting kids watch movies they are 4 years younger than the age rating for.

Bloody hell.

If it's a 15 they shouldn't show it to y7 which contains 11yos.

Excerpts carefully selected for teaching purposes would be OK though.

I've never actually understood what jobs Martin Freeman and that Welsh woman supposedly have.

I thought there might be a 'cunt' or two in this film among all the usual sweary stuff. Just one though, Hugh Grant....

theyre porn doubles for editing purposes

i thought it was a 15 maybe it is a 12 now although wont some kids still be 11?

Lighting stand ins, Robotic.

They seem to be stand-ins for the ‘proper’ porn actors, Robotic. I’ve never been on a porn film set, so no idea whether they actually use them in porn films, but have been on film sets where there are stand-ins for the child actors, because children on film sets need to spend a specified number of hours at school, and can’t go above a strictly set number of hours of filming, so it makes sense to use stand-ins to set up shots, lighting etc, and only bring in the actors when you’re ready to film a take.

Yanbu if it's a 15 it shouldn't be shown to 12 year olds, especially without letting the parents have an opt out option.

YANBU
15 Cert. School in the wrong to show the film to 11-year-olds.