Before watching the movie "This Film is Not Yet Rated" I didn’t realize how much control the rating of a movie had over its success in theaters. I had never thought about how this could create a kind of monopoly of businesses in the film industry. It is pointed out in the movie how extreme amounts of violence can be shown, but outside of simple heterosexual sex is labeled NC 17. This offers a likely contributing factor as to why our culture is becoming much more violent. It seems to me that the mpaa possibly started out with good intentions, but turned out being a way to control what companies and types of movies will succeed.
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