Jackie Robak
WOW what an interesting movie. “At least in the current environment, creative, thoughtful, and even subversive films can get made� as Franklin stated, I think that this means that there is no restriction when it comes to creating a movie. But I don’t agree with that statement (If it means what I thought it meant). I think there is restriction; giving a movie an NC-17 rating is just as good as cancelling the movie.
I don’t think Kerby would agree with it either. I feel like this is the same battle that we’ve been talking about this whole semester. It’s the conservative movie raters vs. the liberal movie producers. This is just like the hippie and hip hop issues. The rater’s arguments seemed like they came from conservative parents. Oh yeah, they were conservative parents. This is a poor choice in the selection process. The average person is not a parent, why should they be the one’s to pick what we are able to watch? The funniest part is that kids can get a hold of whatever they want through the internet.
This brings me to another point. Why is it that we have a pattern of giving movies with sexual content, a harsher rating than those that contain violence? When in Europe it’s the other way around. The raters think their doing a good job by keeping kids from seeing sex on T.V. when all it takes is a click and they can get it on the internet.
I think we should rate movies with violence harsher than movies with sex. There have been plenty of incidents when kids copy the violent scenes out of the movies. I think the reason why the U.S. is stricter when it comes to sex is because of the large number of citizens that are Christian. Being promiscuous is frowned upon. I think eventually we will get to be a more liberal country but for now old fashion values controls us.