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Submitted by enpen on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 1:00pm.
Ignorant Movie Review: This Film Is Not Yet Rated
» Response to title: I think I remember seeing something about this movie before. If I'm not mistaken, it's a documentary about the MPAA and its rating process. Response to curbside poster: The effect of a steaming brand mimicking the ratings logo used by the MPAA combined with the Jack Valenti quote, "Filmmakers must decide what story to tell, and how to tell it", puts me in the mood to laugh at our sociatal "voluntary" censorship. The flowing red background is a particularly nice symbolic touch evincing the passion/violence of blood amidst the sex and theater of curtains. Response post-credits: This is a really clean, well put together and chronological narrative of a documentary. Its goal of looking behind the MPAA's proverbial curtain is achieved as every member of the 2005 board of reviewers and appeals is exposed. The double standard of sex & violence in Hollywood is made explicit; likewise the double standard of heterosexual & homosexual relationships. If you walk into this documentary with the assumption that America is relatively free of censorship, you will be summarily disabused of this notion. In all of these respects, this is an excellent documentary. My only gripe, and it's a needling one for me, is that the film's scope becomes too large. At one point in the film our attention is directed toward the information monopoly that exists in our country. Yes; this is true. Yes; this is worrisome. No; you should not use this information in documentary narrative building unless you can spend sufficient time on it so as to actually educate viewers on the implications of this fact. This documentary uses that information in the "see! look at that! look at all the control they have!" mode, without actually examining the existant problem outside of the MPAA. Outside of this personal gripe, this is definitely a fun and well made expose on a major censorship establishment in America. Rating: 4 Oly Stubbies Film Haiku: Silence volunteers "to choose their fuck carefully", pubic hair for hire! Can be seen: Olympia Film Society 206 5th Ave N Olympia, WA 98501 Tuesday, October 24, 9pm Wednesday, October 25, 6:30pm Thursday, October 26, 9pm |
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puts me in the mood to laugh
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 5:55pm.puts me in the mood to laugh at our sociatal "voluntary" censorship.
Do you think the rating system is forced upon us? I don't. One only has to look at the beating the video game industry takes (from Republicans and Democrats) to see that at the very least, people don't care if there is a rating system.
Your "Ignorant Review" does interest me in this documentary, though.
the who
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 7:14pm."If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!"
Who is it forced by,
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 7:39pm.Who is it forced by, though?
I shouldn't even be asking this, because I'm more than certain it's covered in the film. I'll go look around for it either tonight or tomorrow.
heh
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 8:03pm."If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!"