First Monday in October Film

We viewed part of a film in class today titled, “The First Monday in October”. The film is about the decisions of the Supreme Court on a pornographic film. A female justice, Loomis, is offended that Justice Snow, a liberal man, did not go to the film screening to review what has been shown in the film. He believes that the film maker, Malony, should be able to do what he wants.

My opinion of this film and what had happened is two sided. In a sense I agree with both of them. I do think pornography is dirty, and just the thought that something so vile could be shown in front of children makes me feel kind of sick. On the other hand, pornography should be allowed because people have the right to do what they want, and express themselves how they want. If they decide to use pornography to do that, then that is what they do. It is degrading, and it does distort the human nature of love making or whatever you feel comfortable calling it, but it’s how the producer of the film decided to express himself. Now, I am not saying it’s completely ok to openly display porn, though now it’s quite commonly viewed, but what I am saying is that people should be allowed to produce porn, and watch it if that’s what they want to do. I am somewhat of a liberal myself, so I believe people do have a right to do as they want, as long as no one else is harmed by it, or to a certain degree.