Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Very different opinion... :)

G
PG
PG-13
R
NC-17

While I agree that the movie rating system is greatly flawed, I believe it is flawed for almost the exact opposite reasons than that stated in the sections of the documentary we watched. I personally believe that our grading system should be a lot stricter with its grading and should take both sexual content and violence into much more consideration. G movies should be absolutely innocent with nothing that could cause any sort of questioning present (only soft kissing allowed). PG movies can start to bring in some suggestive material, small amounts of violence, and perhaps even a few profanities. PG-13 can be more mature in content and can be allowed to show violence and very generic romance. R movies can be violent/graphic and can show sexual content as long as it isn’t “X-rated”. NC-17 is everything else that no one under the age of 17 should be allowed to see.

Things have changed greatly from yesterday’s world to today. Children are being exposed too much more than those of past generations and I’m not sure if it’s really for the better. Yes, they are maturing much faster because of it, but they are also being subjected to content matter that, in my personal opinion, is far beyond their years. Why can’t we try to keep children as innocent as possible for as long as possible? Why do we need to ruin their childhoods but making them grow-up and think of things they shouldn’t understand at that point in their lives? Our country needs to be stricter and needs to stop worrying about making everyone ‘happy’ when it comes to the entertainment business. We need to protect the people even if it means slapping a high grade on a movie, and the people need to learn to deal with that.

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