A teacher in France has been suspended after screening the horror film "Saw" for a class of 11-year-olds.

    Radio network Europe 1 reports that Jean-Baptiste Clement told his students: "This will be your first horror film." One pupil arrived home looking distinctly uncomfortable, according to a separate report on the French news site The Local.

    "He returned from school Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well," said the father. "I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class. At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit."

    The father subsequently brought the issue up with the school authorities.

    Clement was suspended Tuesday while the school carried out an investigation, and could face further punishment.

    "We're in the process of seeing what sort of legal measures we might be able to take in this case," said a spokesperson for the school in Hauts-de-Seine in the north-western suburbs of Paris.

    "Saw," from 2004, tells the story a masked serial killer who forces his victims to perform gruesome violence on themselves and others as part of a sadistic game. It's considered one of the most influential horror movies of recent times and has so far spawned six sequels.

    The incident mirrors a similar case in the United States last month, when parents in Georgia filed a complaint against a middle-school teacher who allegedly showed restricted-certificate movies such as Seth MacFarlane's expletive-ridden comedy "Ted" to 12-year-olds.     

    Words to Learn 相关词汇

    可怕的

    kěpà de

    gruesome

    causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly     

    虐待狂的

    nuèdài kuáng de

    sadistic

    deriving pleasure from extreme cruelty

    法教师给学生放恐怖片被停职     

    法国一名教师因在课堂放映恐怖电影《电锯惊魂》遭停职，学生为11岁儿童。

    据欧洲第一广播网报道，让-巴蒂斯特·克莱蒙对学生说：“这将成为你们的第一部恐怖电影。”据法国新闻网站“当地”的报道，一名小学生回到家后，显得十分不安。

    该小学生的父亲说：“他周一晚上从学校回来的时候，看上去明显很不适，很不好。我问他，他告诉我说他的数学老师在课堂上给他们放了一部恐怖电影。当时老师们在开职员会和家长老师见面会，所以他们提早下课了。”

    随后，该父亲向校方反映了此事。

    次日，校方对此事进行调查，克莱蒙遭停职，他可能将面临进一步的惩罚。这所巴黎西北近郊上塞纳省学校的发言人表示：“我们正在处理在此事，看是否可能采取法律措施。”

    2004年的《电锯惊魂》讲述了这样一个故事：一名蒙面连环杀手迫使受害者对自己或他人实行可怕的暴力，这是他虐待游戏的一部分。这部电影被认作是近代最有影响力的恐怖电影之一，目前共有六部续集。

    和这一事件相呼应，美国上月发生了相似案件，乔治亚州的一对夫妻向一名中学教师提起诉讼，据其诉讼，这位教师给12岁的学生放映了限制级的电影，例如塞思·麦克法兰脏话横飞的喜剧电影《泰迪熊》。