To maximize the probability of helping this little girl and likely many other kids, I am exceptionally detailed in this summary. This report might be offensive to those who are offended by straight talk of extreme sexual vulgarities and bloody gore, but I report on what is there. Paul in Corinth did not avoid extremes, how can I if I am to serve our Lord by revealing that which is sometimes ugly?
SPECIAL ANALYSIS: *Quest for Fire* (R) -- or quest to maximize moral invasion.
*Quest for Fire* (1981) was a movie about cave people striving for possession of "life-giving" fire: fire they could not create on their own. When their fire went out, they had to steal it from others or find it from natural ignition. Clans battled each other for possession of fire. Many lives were lost. Even rivalry from within the central clan over who would get the glory for finding fire lead to deaths. And most of the women were without adequate clothing, at least so say the producers and writers.
The movie started out speaking to evolution which was the first invasion of His expectations of us. Very soon into the movie, group partial nudity appeared as the camera panned over the sleeping clan. Within minutes the nudity started full bore with a rear view of three women leaning forward from the hip to access a creek -- with nothing covering their backsides. Then, the first of five instances of sexual intercourse happened. As this was happening, extreme violence by killings in war over possession of fire and women began. One example of the violence was a spear thrust into the mouth of an attacker, protruding out the back of his head. Then a mother bear minced one of the clansmen as the he tried to hide with a precious taxi of fire. Then the aftermath of the battle was presented as body parts, bloody bodies, and all manner of battle gore filled the screen. And as part of the aftermath, animals were seen eating human remains while viscously protecting their finds. This was the first 14 minutes of the 96-minute movie.
Over the rest of the movie, the violence continued as did the nudity: 46+ instances of partial nudity (including three youth) and 39+ instances of full nudity, including during the five episodes of sexual intercourse (four animalistic and one sensual). The exact total of instances of nudity was not countable since several scenes involved multiple nudity. And Rae Dong Chong spent most of her onscreen time without any clothes or with partial clothing.
This movie included cannibalism and killing with arrows, stones, sticks, and whatever else was available. There was little to the movie but blind violence and nudity. To try to justify this movie with "That's the way life was back then" is inane. ANY portrayal of ANY behavior in this movie was sheer speculation -- total guesswork. Besides, the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model is completely objective. We make no scoring allowances for Hollywood's trumped-up "messages" to excuse, or for manufacturing of justification for aberrant behavior or imagery. I will never watch this movie again. And NEVER should any six year old child be expected to 'handle' this early stroke of the chisel at the foundation of our once-defendable threshold of acceptability and inhibition.
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SCORING DISTRIBUTION
*Quest for Fire* (R) earned a CAP Final score of 53 out of 100 points. Following are the scores in the six CAP Investigation Areas (out of a possible 100 points each) and the examples per hour:
Investigation Area scoring:
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Wanton Violence/Crime: 0, with 16.9 examples per hour
Impudence/Hate: 97, with 0.6 examples per hour
Sex/Homosexuality: 0, with 63.1 examples per hour
Drugs/Alcohol: 90, with 0.6 examples per hour
Offense to God (occultism, satanism, etc.): 97, with 0.6 examples per hour
Murder/Suicide: 38, with 3.8 examples per hour
CAP ID (Influence Density)
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2.51
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