![]() We hear a report of a teenage girl’s suicide as witnessed by her younger sister.A suicide letter details how the person that committed suicide had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by her father over a prolonged period and had as a result become pregnant.In one scene a young man points a rifle at an old man for several minutes before he is reasoned with and lowers the rifle.A single Caucasian man approaches leader of the attackers and punches him in the stomach knocking the man to the ground and stopping the fight. In an act of racial and mob violence, several Caucasian men invade the front yard of a Vietnamese man and violently attack him calling him a “Red Rat” punching him in the face and body and knocking him to the ground.An angry mother tells her 14 year-old son “Tomorrow you’re going to wish you weren’t alive”.He has blood smeared across his nose and a bloody cut to the eye, and says that he can’t hear because he was hit on the ear. Two policemen wrestle with Jasper Jones in a bid to restrain him.A boy talks about how he heard his girlfriend screaming and then a short time later found her dead.The Caucasian woman then throws a cup of boiling hot tea over the Vietnamese woman who cries out in pain. In one emotionally intense scene, we see a distraught woman shout at a Vietnamese woman telling her “Your son eats like a pig while mine was killed” (the woman’s son was recently killed in Vietnam).A mother shouts in rage at her 14 year-old son and then slaps him across the face.A boy tells a story about a local man who became addicted to killing, shot a woman and hung up her body to bleed out.The film contains a number of references to violence and violent scenes, some of them emotionally intense. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world. Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another. Charlie has to confront racists and finds out that his mother is having an affair, while Jasper discovers a grandfather he never knew he had.Ĭharlie, Jasper and Eliza’s friendship, trust and courage are tested to the full when the truth behind Laura’s death reveals dark, ugly and forbidden secrets resulting in unexpected outcomes. Charlie and Jasper’s investigation leads them into unexpected situations. ![]() The next day Charlie unexpectedly runs into Laura’s younger sister Eliza (Angourie Rice) and they quickly become friends as a result of the turmoil created by Laura’s disappearance. So Charlie and Jasper hide Laura’s body, and Charlie returns to his bedroom as though nothing has happened while Jasper lays low. Jasper begs Charlie to help him find Laura’s killer and prove his innocence. The rope tied around Laura’s neck belongs to Jasper and, with Laura being a local white girl and Jasper indigenous, Jasper fears he will immediately be blamed for Laura’s death. Jasper leads Charlie deep into the bush where Jasper shows Charlies the dead body of a teenage girl, Laura Wishart, who is hanging by the neck from a tree. Jasper Jones (Aaron L, McGrath), an older teenager considered by the locals to be “dangerous” asks Charlie for his trust and then tells Charlie to follow him into the night. In the dead of night, 14 year-old Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), an awkward book loving nerd, is woken by a knock on his bedroom window. The film takes places during the summer of 1969 in the fictional Western Australian town of Corrigan. material that may scare or disturb children.This review of the movie contains the following information: Researchers who focus on Children and the Media.eBook - Quality Play and Media in Childhood Education and Care.Working with your child and their Digital Privacy. ![]()
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