This Film is Not Yet Rate - Amanda Ruffalo
In response to Franklin statement saying "some fairly well-established guidelines to the assignment of ratings, [and thus] filmmakers can now predict with a fair amount of certainty what their films' ratings will be. In addition, it is a fairly simple matter to edit a film to conform to a particular rating's requirements" (153), I think Kirby Dick and those who were interviewed in the film totally disagree on Franklin's statement. Obviously making a film is a difficult task and to ask the directors and producers of the film to go back and simply edit or cut out certain parts of their film is no easy task! It could, and probably would, change what the film is all about. And for the movie with the gay and lesbian scenes in them, to cut out one scene where a girl is seen masturbating with her clothes on. Why should this be cut out, when in America Pie, a guy can been seen masturbating into a pie without his clothes on? To me, the MPAA is just trying to "protect" the American viewers from the real world where there happens to be homosexuals. I think that it isn't up to the MPAA to be able to limit these films from audiences, people can make their own decisions to see the movies they want to see. People can't live in a sheltered life forever. It is a fact that they will be introduced to these issues elsewhere, if not in the movies. Also what angered me about this movie was the fact that movies with brutal sex scenes of the way guys are treating women is allowed, and brutal murders are also allowed, but heaven forbid a teenage girl experimenting with herself be allowed on screen! And to a fellow classmates blog, I think that people who go see homosexual scenes aren't going to go home and want to experiment with the same sex, and if they do, who cares what people do on their own time? I think by simply seeing a movie of a homosexual sex scene isn't going to "make someone gay". I think all types of movies should be allowed on screen, and leave it up to the parents or the individual to decide the rest.