Jason Na Film Response

Before watching the documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” in our class, I was not aware of the fact that rating a movie was this difficult, and that it took so much work to produce it. I never knew that the movie rating NC-17 existed, which is “No Children Allowed.” Private investigator MPAA tried so hard and took humiliation from the raters on the phone to expose Hollywood’s best-kept secret. To me, the board seems to treat homosexual material much more harshly than heterosexual material. The board’s raters lacked of expertise in media literacy and child development and had no training. As a result, they lost credibility from the movie directors and got sued. MPAA contributed to the movie viewers especially to parents so that they can decide which movies or films to let their children watch.