Its story of the Joad family is truly a brilliant expose into the travails of the American people during the Great Depression. Both movies managed to capture the mood, the truth, about a period of time. Movies can also grasp the obvious and let us see things we would normally ignore. THE DOG is a good example of this. Truth can imitate art.
Art can imitate truth.
At some point, there comes a place where parental responsibility takes over. There is an OFF switch on the TV as well as on a computer. If you are a parent, use it. What the movie industry does not need is another Hayes Commission deciding what we, the American public, can see or what it cannot see. Certain experts have expressed the opinion that as a society the American public has become so exposed to motion picture violence that we don't even see it.