Selfishness (1)

According to the Dictionary available in Microsoft Works Word,

self·ish [sélfish]
adj

1. looking after own desires: concerned with your own interests, needs, and wishes while ignoring those of others
2. demonstrating selfishness: showing that personal needs and wishes are thought to be more important than those of other people

Apparently someone commented that I am a selfish person. It was due to a post I made in Writing Angel. I simply joked that maybe the cinema should ban kids from watching movies that are not suitable for kids.

I am not saying that movies like Narnia is not suitable for kids but for kids below 5 years old, what do they understand from the movie anyway? Besides, there are wars involved in Narnia and would you want your kids to watch violence anyway? I wouldn’t.

Maybe the only attraction to the kids in the movie is either Aslan or the Pevensies. Unless if the kids are older, I doubt they really understand the movie.

I am not saying that parents cannot bring kids to watch movies in cinema like if you are going to watch Wall-E or Ice Age III and even Kung Fu Panda. I can understand that kids will laugh at Po whenever he fall from Jade Palace, or being hit by Master Shi Fu.

Can you imagine kids watching Iron Man? I was kind of surprise a 5 year-old boy was brought along by his parents to watch the movie in the same cinema as me. Throughout the whole movie, the kid keep on asking who is the tin man and his parents keep on telling him, “THAT is IRONMAN!”.

Then the kid started to yell, “Iron Man!” every time ____ transformed into Iron Man. Later, the kid asked the same question. The parents will have to keep on answering the kid’s repetitive questions.

Look at the meaning of selfish no. 1 : looking after own desires

The person said I am being selfish. I could say that the parents of those kids are being selfish too. They are not the only one who wants to watch the movies, I want to watch too. The truth is I am not the only one. In the whole Cineplex, there are like a hundred or maybe two hundred seats so there will be hundreds of people watching movies.

Look at meaning no. 2 : demonstrating selfishness

It is not like I scold them at their face. I am not demonstrating selfishness. I am just using Writing Angel to express my opinion. I did not point a gun at GSC people and make them ban kids from cinema. I am a consumer, and I have the right to make suggestions.

Is it wrong to express my opinion? I respect the person’s view but I never approve the comment anyway, too bias for me to publish.

Anyway, recently I watched Hellboy 2 and the same situation is repeating over and over again. I am living with that but my “Opinion” is that kids should only be allowed for certain movies.

The censorship in Malaysia is said to be so high that I cannot even watch The Passion of The Christ in the cinema. If they want to ban the movie, why not they censor the type of movies suitable and not suitable for kids?