This Film Is Not Yet Rated

If you've ever wondered about film ratings, then you have to go pick up this documentary. Kirby Dick, writer and director, takes a giant stab at the monster called MPAA. Afterwards, he then submits his almost finished product for a rating and I'm sure you won't be surprised at what happens. Dick starts off by trying to find out exactly who is in charge of these ratings. So he hires some private detectives and they soon find out names and faces of everybody involved. He then goes on to discover how not training or guidelines are even set on how the movies should be rated. Dick also brings in many directors who have recieved NC-17 ratings on their films and discusses what exactly warranted the rating. Time after time again they point out how two movies can have almost identical content and have totally different ratings. This movie was awesome. It pretty much backed up everything I've been thinking about the film industry's rating system for the past 10 years. It also pointed out how I've noticed that violence is ok in American and sex is ok in Europe. One really interesting comment by Kevin Smith (one of my favorite directors of all time) talked about how violence is even worse than sex. He pointed out how violence towards women is so commonplace in the movies and yet we wonder why it's such a problem in our world today. I don't think movies make people do anything, however, they present ideas and ideals that are teaching the children of America. Something to think about. So if you consider yourself a movie person you HAVE to rent this one. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.