Rating System: What for!?

Do we need rating system? I feel like rating system is useless, and shouldn’t be there at all. Based on parts of This Film is not yet Rated we’ve seen in class on Monday, I feel like the members of MPPA cannot represent the whole population of the audience, especially in the U.S., a nation consists of very people with various backgrounds.

First of all, obviously many members are parents of either young children or teenagers; it is only natural for parents to be protective, but to bring personal life into the rating system is not right. Not all the audience would agree with what such protective parents think. Many people that go to movie are also adults that do not need that family friendliness on what they want to watch.

Secondly, not everyone comes from the religious background. Obviously, these members would consist of the major religions like Christian. Many people do not care about religions when they go to see movie. Even if they do, there still some intensity of how much a person believes.

Thirdly, everything changes with time, in short amount of time to be specific. MPAA members restrict these changes with their way of thinking that has been like that for decades. The audience is not necessary stuck in the same mental time-loop like MPAA; they wants to see movie that is right for the time period.

MPPA’s rating system is not justified, and unnecessary. People do not need to be told by raters what they should avoid seeing, as it is a commonsense. Parents are capable of knowing what their kids should avoid seeing. If the parents were unable to do that, they don’t deserve to be parents. No one wants to see movie that offended you. I mean, why would you want to spend 10 dollars or more for the tickets just to be offended? Even for some TV Shows, if any of them offend you, you can just grab the remote and change the channel. It is just commonsense. People’s tastes also change with time. Soap Opera is not popular anymore; and also kids grow up. They won’t watch Disney Chanel for the rest of their lives.