Yu Katayama
The documentary, this film is not yet rated, was an interesting film because it showed how the films were rated, but also it showed how the procedure in rating films weren’t efficient. From the documentary, I thought that the procedure of rating the films, which was done by MPAA, wasn’t organized at all. It seemed like they didn’t have any standard procedure in rating films and also they didn’t have any kind of training programs, which I thought it was very unusual. It was also interesting that they had completely different ratings in similar types of movies, which indicated the disorganized procedure to it. Obviously it is public’s concern to have their children watching films that contains inappropriate contents and when the films are released with the “wrong” ratings, I think it damages the relationship between the movie industry and the public. However, I also believe that the movie industry is mostly concerned with the profit, not much to the public’s attention. From one of the assigned readings, Koppes said that “the studios would stop at nothing to make a buck, not even censorship,” which shows that their priority is to make money (Koppes, 649). In today’s society, there are a lot of children who watches film just because there’s some sex scenes and other contents that are inappropriate to them. In some part, it is parent’s responsibility to not let those things happen, but obviously if the rating procedure was more organized, they wouldn’t be dealing with that kind of issue. Protection of the children is very important and it would be nice to see if MPAA and the movie industry make an improvement on the rating procedure in order to have the “proper” ratings for the films so that no one would be confused and harmed.