Movies can illustrate a certain period of history. 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.