pranama wrote:Well, BLT, the statistics ist the less reliable info source about any country, people, culture etc.
We may not have religious burden, but definitely we have a lot of other burdens. One of possible reasons of good quality of Czechoslovak child movies from 70´s and 80´s might be the fact that many excellent directors can only make child movies, as a part of repressions in the era of "normalization" (matching with 70´s and 80´s). And they must be happy enough, other ones were not allowed to make any movies at all, they must emigrate etc. Interesting enough, the time called "golden 60´s" before the Russian occupation in 1968 brought up many excellent movies, compared with this time today we experience a slow decline.
I won't debate religion either for or against - there's no way to avoid getting
somebody angry. I think the attitude is more like facing the world with realism - there's nothing "nasty" about the human body and people will be people. Politeness and civility keep adults clothed, but if a kid is seen bare-bottomed, it's no big deal. Prudery has to be taught - children have no body modesty until adults teach it to them.
It's a cyclical thing - Victorian-era people dressed head-to-toe to go swimming while earlier times had coed nude bathing. Local culture is a factor too, such as a belch after dinner being the ultimate compliment to a cook in one place and a deadly insult in another. I'm sure the cycle will eventually swing the other direction again.
The '68 occupation horrified a lot of the world. Those of us who've never been through something like that can have no real conception of how it was to be in that situation. We can be thankful for the quality of the films from that time while deploring the reasons that made them possible.