- Being an ER physician, unfortunately
I see the consequences of gun violence.
I'm Dr. Armand Dorian.
I'm the chief medical officer at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
and I'm also a trauma physician.
Today, we're gonna be viewing PG-13 movies
and analyzing the violence in those movies,
but I'm gonna give you insight
from a physician's perspective.
In a recent study, researchers
found that there's more gun violence
in PG-13 movies than R-rated movies.
Even though they decrease the amount
of blood and gore scene, repeated viewing
of violent content in media can
actually increase the potential
for some children to have aggressive behavior.
The first movie we're gonna watch is Suicide Squad.
In this scene, we see the Joker
and Monster T get into an altercation.
(gun shooting)
Here is a bullet to the head.
It is one of the most gruesome things to ever witness,
but we're not seeing any significant
trauma pictured in that scene.
You don't see the blood, you don't see brain spatter.
You're just seeing somebody's head rock back and forth.
The fact that a bullet hits a closed space like a skull,
creates a permanent and temporary cavity.
That cavity is a pressure inside
and if it's a closed space and you
create that pressure, the skull actually pops.
- Get me the G.I. Joes.
- Our next movie is G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
In this scene, we see G.I. Joes invading an enemy base.
For those of you that don't know,
G.I. Joe actually started off as a toy for kids.
Here we see a bunch of bodies laying down
on the ground like stick figures.
One, there'd be a lot more blood.
You'd die from exsanguination,
which means you lose blood loss.
People don't die instantly.
There's gonna be a lot more moaning, a lot more moving.
There's gonna be people who are still struggling.
The death is different for each particular person shot.
So you're not gonna get all these people lying flat
without any significant noise, sound, or blood.
This is a very unrealistic scene.
We actually see a soldier using a weapon
that is extremely high-powered and high tech.
We see the bullet hit the victim
and cause no significant ballistic damage.
Almost as though they were hit by a tranquilizer.
That's not realistic.
We see the person get hit and fall down.
The amount of pressure that would be generated
would cause a mini explosion in the body.
You should see splatter, you should see bits and pieces
of body going off in different directions.
We've seen gun violence and the effects
of our soldiers when they come back from places
where they had to actually use weapons.
They have to deal with a lot of post-traumatic stress.
When we're showing this type of gun depiction
in PG-13 movies, we are really not doing service
to those individuals who actually had
to use guns to protect other people's lives
and the stress that they live with
for the rest of their life.
Now we're gonna watch Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation.
In this scene, they find themselves
at a crowded restaurant and they gotta
shoot their way out to escape the enemy.
Right away we're able to see that the depiction
of this gun battle is set for PG-13.
A lot of things here are not realistic.
It actually looks to be more like a
BB gun fight than an actual gun battle.
The trauma and the size of the injuries
that are happening are not apparent.
You have to kinda guess by the motion
of the actors on who's being hit.
When there's a gun battle happening, all chaos breaks out.
Everybody's running in every different direction
getting hurt from tripping, falling, hitting their heads.
Then you add the fact that innocent bystanders
also get hit by shrapnel and bullets.
It's not just somebody gently falling to the floor
or ducking their head on the table.
What actually happens is a lot more gore, a lot more blood,
and unfortunately a lot more chaotic scenes.
PG-13 movies try to decrease the reality
or gore that is seen in gun violence.
That is done to protect the kids,
but perhaps we're not doing them justice.
Many of these movies depict the person
using gun violence as the hero.
Thinking gun violence as an option
should not entertain their brains.
Many times those guns not only
become a problem for the person that they
kill or shoot, but they can become a problem
for the person who would use them.
(haunting music)