Pretty Baby

I watched a movie on T.V. the other night called "Pretty Baby". It was made quite a few years ago because Brooke Shields is the young girl star and she's about 11 or 12 in the movie.

The story was about a young girl being raised in a brothel in New Orleans in the early 1900's. I remember hearing about this movie when it was made and heard all the rhetoric about whether or not it was a good idea to feature such a young child in the role. Because of my curiosity about the movie's history I watched it, but with a great deal of disgust.

Brooke Shields seems to have matured into a very nice lady today and we've never heard any nasty gossip about her but her parents should be chastised for allowing their child to act in a movie of this sort. Too many lines are crossed when you portray a little girl witnessing sexual activity, drinking alcohol, appearing naked, and then participating in sexual activity. What sort of adults allowed this to happen to this child? How can we know the psychological effects it had on her psyche?

The movie was well made and beautifully created an atmosphere most of us have no idea ever existed so I'm not questioning the quality of the film. My criticism is with their use of a very young child as the star.