If they had filmed it how the author intended it to be then I get your point however it was made into a Good Old British Comedy where most people who watch it just laugh at it all the way through completely missing the point of the original author.
Not at all.
Plenty of other films and plenty of stand-up comics use humour to direct attention to things that really need looking at... and it works, as the humour makes it a far easier pill to swallow than some hard-hitting docu-drama. People like to laugh and they often laugh at themselves, while knowing there is some serious truth behind it. It's the same literary device used here and it clearly worked, given not only the status of the film, but the fact the people continue to produce the play because it remains relevant.
We were supposed to watch it like we watched Trainspotting with sad faces saying "WTF?" instead everybody leaves the film smiling.
Trainspotting: "A brutal, often times
funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and
entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use".
Since when were addiction and the horrors of drug abuse funny or entertaining?
Yet of RS&BT we have Roger Ebert giving it 3 out of 4 stars, and having watched it twice noted that some audiences were uneasy at its mixed tone, calling it "angry", "sometimes depressing", and "more interested in human nature than in selling lots of tickets with lots of sex".
Film interested in human nature, eh?
There are lots of films and programmes that use humour as a vehicle, and the Brits seem pretty good at it, but that doesn't detract from any serious consideration of the subjects prompted by the film.
yea and middle aged at one point was probably about 18, and old age considered about 30-40.
Which has no impact on the basic biology, either way. The age of puberty doesn't start later just because we now live longer.
If we rushed kids into the real world at around 12 years old, by time they are 14/15 they would probably be a lot more adult than they are now.
Instead we have generations who are scared to make phone calls etc, but apparently ready for sex
And we know they're not mentally ready, which is why we take differing legal stances on underage sex versus murder.
The complexity in having and raising a child is massive. The simplicity in "Thou shalt not murder" is pretty evident.
these cases arent about social norms but about the individual.
Not at all. Most teenages would not be ready, for either the complexities around intercourse and other relations, or the results, hence the increase to the age of consent.
Individual choices are just further examples of the moral and social complexities, which again they're not ready to figure out and decide for themselves. It's made more complicated by the signals their body is giving them.
in part i agree, but the number of deaths due to childbirth complicaitons are much lower now than in the past.
They're somewhat lower and the greater part of that is wider access to better sanitary conditions and better medical knowledge. Women also had more children back then, with shorter times between pregnancy, and other higher risk factors that we strongly advise against today.
But today childbirth remains the sixth most common cause of death for women aged 20-40, and many of the medical (rather than simple sanitary) factors remain a very real risk. In the old days rich people could afford better surgeons, whereas today most of them are top notch, yet still the underlying factors persist.
The WHO asserts that both complications and deaths have risen quite alarmingly in the last decade and a half. The deaths from childbirth have almost doubled in the UK alone.
None of this is affected by the age at which the human body decides it's ready for pregnancy, though.
for females its important to have good hips, see below last section.
But since we can't ban slim-hipped women from shagging, or force them to take medication that prevents their body from sending out the baby signals, it's not a factor.
Their bodies and biological clocks will carry on regardless.
