Tuesday, May 5, 2009

This Film is Not Yet Rated

In this entertaining documentary, the notion of censorship is question. What makes a movie an R-rated movie and what makes it PG-13 or something less than that. One filmmaker, with the help of some private eyes, try to figure out who is on the ratings board, something that be kept anominous up until now. The film also interviews directors who have had to censor their movies to avoid an NC-17 rating and how they feel the present system is messed up. One thing especially is how violent movies could receive a PG-13 rating and movies with sex scenes or nudity get an R rating. They also explain how vague these board is with what is appropriate or not and how they have all these rules and regulations to allow them to have all the say, and none really to the directors at all. The message of this film is how our idea of censorship is off skew and its about time that we change it.

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