It would be unhealthy for a child to actually derive pleasure from watching two other children plot a mass murder or even carry one out, but I don't see the problem in letting a kid watch this. It's mostly PG-13 material. I think it got an R is because it's an independent, low-budget production and it mimics the Columbine High School massacre. If you nixed the F bombs it would be no worse than your average PG/PG-13 movie, but the fact that the movie is based on one of the worst American tragedies in history was probably enough to make the MPAA have a meltdown. People like Schindler's List and it's based on the Holocaust, but people don't like Zero Day and it's based on the Columbine massacre. The Holocaust was far more severe than the so-called "carnage" at Columbine. Moviegoers seem to like watching people get strapped to chairs and tortured endlessly in a movie, but when a classmate gets shot by another classmate in a movie, it's the f ucking social issue of the day.
To the world you may just be somebody, but to somebody you may just be the world.
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