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Jack21222
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I just read an article by Roger Ebert about how a documentary should be rated:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/03/even_as_i_write_on.html
This looks like an important documentary, particularly for teens to see. But, the MPAA has slapped an R rating on it because it uses the F word a few too many times unless the film bleeps some instances of that word in order to bring it back down to a PG-13 rating. I feel that bleeping that word would somehow neuter the message of the documentary. The kids out there being bullied hear that word all the times in school from their tormentors. The parents should have to hear what their kids are hearing without it first being sterilized first.
Many others feel the same way that I do.
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10655561-kids-cant-see-anti-bullying-film-due-to-r-rating
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/13/3488959/depp-streep-join-call-to-lower.html
And this article gives an interesting debate about movie ratings in general, noting that The Hunger Games movie, about a teenage deathmatch, only received a PG-13 rating.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/19/3500438/the-hunger-games-bully-prompt.html
I guess kids are allowed to kill each other, as long as they don't say "f***" while doing it.
What do you think?
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/03/even_as_i_write_on.html
This looks like an important documentary, particularly for teens to see. But, the MPAA has slapped an R rating on it because it uses the F word a few too many times unless the film bleeps some instances of that word in order to bring it back down to a PG-13 rating. I feel that bleeping that word would somehow neuter the message of the documentary. The kids out there being bullied hear that word all the times in school from their tormentors. The parents should have to hear what their kids are hearing without it first being sterilized first.
Many others feel the same way that I do.
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10655561-kids-cant-see-anti-bullying-film-due-to-r-rating
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/13/3488959/depp-streep-join-call-to-lower.html
And this article gives an interesting debate about movie ratings in general, noting that The Hunger Games movie, about a teenage deathmatch, only received a PG-13 rating.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/19/3500438/the-hunger-games-bully-prompt.html
I guess kids are allowed to kill each other, as long as they don't say "f***" while doing it.
What do you think?
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