Talk:The Savage Innocents/Comments

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Rating a film from 1959 with the standards of its day is no less a challenge than rating it with standards of nearly 50 years later.

If the film were made today, in order to satisfy PETA requirements, it would surely have to include, "No animals were harmed in the making of this picture." Very unlikely, since faking spearing them through the ice, butchering them and eating their raw bloody internal organs would be easy to fake, but does faking it tell the truth?

The trouble I see is the use of the term eskimo. Since it appears so many times in the film, it may be inappropriate to judge it by modern standards. The story is depicted in Canada, where today such an exonym is considered pejorative, the term Inuit being preferred.

The most difficult consideration is the area of sex. Since Inuit, Yupik, Aleut and Aluutiq cultures believe sharing of sex partners is polite, and refusing to share is the utimate breach of etiquette, modern Christians would never be able to rate it less than "X."--W8IMP 17:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)