Mum’s extreme task for kid who wants to see Pitch Perfect 2

NOT content with being “blind consumers,” this mum decided that if her son wanted to see this blockbuster, he had to meet a few conditions.

Mum’s extreme contract to see movie

IF YOU were one of the millions who saw Pitch Perfect 2, had a giggle and toddled along home again, meet the teen who has done the exact opposite.

Not content with her son being a “blind consumer,” Glennon Doyle Melton from US parenting blog Momastery decided that if her son Chase wanted to see Pitch Perfect 2 he had to meet a few conditions — in the form of a two-page essay deconstructing some of the film’s main messages.

“I was out of town last week and Chase wanted to see Pitch Perfect 2 with his friends. I had time to do a little research but not a tonne, and for many reasons it seemed like the right thing to let him go,” Glennon explains on her Facebook account, alongside a picture of the contract she devised.

“So I texted him a picture of this contract I wrote up and made him agree to it before he went to the movie. I could feel his eyes rolling all the way across the country. But he agreed, and he wrote his critique — and it started some cool family conversations,” she said.

The rest of the contract.

Here’s the contract Glennon devised in full:

Chase,

You may see Pitch Perfect 2 under these conditions: By Wednesday you will deliver to me a two-page essay which will be your response to the movie. Your response will answer the following questions:

1. What is this movie’s message about sex?

2. What is this movie’s message about women’s bodies? (In particular about being overweight? Are any of these messages sexist?)

3. Is there any racism in this movie? What scenes?

4. Are there any messages in this movie about love, friendships, or careers that are positive?

5. Would you recommend this movie to your sisters? Why or why not?

So, you can see this movie- but only as a critic, not as a blind consumer. You in?

Love, Mama

“It’s a little much, I know that,” Glennon writes. “But I’m just a little much and everyone who lives with me has surrendered to it. At least we’re talking, right? Just got to keep talking. Awkwardly, horribly, angrily, barely ever, whatever — just don’t stop.”

Chase had to answer questions like, Is there racism in Pitch Perfect 2?

What do you think? Would you do the same with your children? Let us know in the comments below.