Kirby Dick is best known for his documentary features which focus on themes of secrecy, hypocrisy and human sexuality.
Kirby Dick entertainingly investigates and exposes the secrecy of the biased American movie rating board, with the help of lesbian Private Investigators. There are several film ratings sketched out by MPAA from G(anyone can watch this film) to NC17(Only 18 and over) ratings. Though these ratings have been stretched from when they were first created.
Dick poses some question's concerning the unfairness of film ratings such as why are some films which contain moderate gay sex rated as NC17 but strong violence and moderate straight sex is only PG13? What's the controversy about? It comes down to money the difference between ratings can be a few m...m...m..million.
I was surprised at the extreme secrecy of the rating board members who acted as if they are agents of the US president. Why would they hide themselves? Movie terrorists?
The American rating makes sense to me it's simply for viewer information. The ratings don't make it physically impossible for an underager to watch it. As was mentioned in the documentary a young teenager getting hold of an NC17 is extremely easy. I do agree there should be a rating system but the American rating rules and inconsistency do get ridiculous.
As was mentioned in the documentary people could argue some content should have a right to be shown without any rating barriers but I think extremely in-humane offensive content which doesn't have any meaning or reason behind it are better if they weren't exposed and kept under the rug.
'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' was an enjoyable controversial watch.
1 comment:
I have to disagree with many of your points, I feel their way of doing things behind closed doors and giving movie studios back handed information. The fact they give NC17's does make a huge difference as it makes the difference to weather a movie can be released in cinemas to make its money back, and weather marketing will happen or not.
I think they can take a few pointers from the BBFC
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