"Movie Ratings-Do they serve Hollywood or the Public?"-Nicole Carroll
In the film, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, we find a man that is feisty and intellectually engaged in a new documentary that’s trying to uncover the wrongdoings of The Motion Picture Association of America. This man is named Kirby Dick. He is an individual that insist on uncovering this organization as a whole; since it is a remarkably secretive. We find that Mr. Dick has recognized the changing standards with the showing of women sexual pleasure parts of how the MPAA rate movies. For example, the film “The Cooler� show a women’s pubic hair or just even talking about certain outré practices in “A Dirty Shame� were threatened to become an NC-17 films. This really defeats the filmmakers that have contracts to create certain ratings, but can’t because of the rating the film is given. The standards usually compel the filmmakers to cut their films, which could potentially forfeit the height of the plot.
Standards are standards and it shouldn’t matter on the sexual gender as to whether the movie should be moved from R to NC-17. We find that this is discrimination against women in the film industry. There are just as raunchy of films that talk about sex with men or show a man’s butt in them and one doesn’t see an NC-17 rating on the cover. Now a day we find that the standards to ratings have become looser and have let things in that are kind of inappropriate, but that is our culture. We find DVD cases on the store shelves that are rated R, but are also uncensored. What’s this about? Like in the article, aren’t they worried about “thematic elements� being harmful to children?
Today it is known that children know more about sexual culture than even my generation (age 21) knows. We have 12 year olds getting pregnant and wanting to keep the child. Yes, this is the prime age for women’s bodies to carry and birth a child, but it doesn’t mean that they should. I can’t remember what study it was, but they say that because there are such limited spots to play outside or are not encouraged to go outside is the reason that these young children are taking in all this information from television, the internet or even video games. They don’t get the interaction in the brain between other kids that they don’t grow in a way we used to. So in this film if Mr Dick lets the MPAA create a culture that does hide the kind of sexual parody we may create a world where our next generation of children will create those motor skills that this generation lacks.