This Film Is Not Yet Rated review

[alobear]

This is a documentary about the MPAA, it's unnecessarily secretive dealings and its apparently arbitrary ratings system, which seems to have more to do with studio power games than actual film content. Obviously, since it was made by people who are very suspicious of the MPAA, its couched in fairly biased terms, but its entertaining and raises a lot of questions about censorship, the artistic merits of sex and violence, as well as the ins and outs of how and why films are rated in America. Overall, pretty good.

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[alobear.livejournal.com]

I agree, and that was the other thing that struck me about the film. It reminded me of the court cases Neil Gaiman talks about on his blog - people being arrested for selling adult comics to adult undercover policemen. It makes very little sense to persecute film-makers for making films that they are more than willing to admit are adult in nature - it's right that they should have the NC-17 rating to advertise a film appropriately, but that should be all that's needed to warn people that it's an adult film; it shouldn't be stopped from being shown at all.