The two part documentary showing the private investigators hunting down the people responsible for rating movies was very interesting. Also, pretty graphic but, being a 21 year old male I didn’t really mind.

I thought it was really messed up how the rating system works for movies. People forget movies are an art form and the director is doing something for a reason, everything in a movie has a purpose. That is one element to movies I love. I also wasn’t totally shocked that when it came to the gay sex scenes opposed to male and woman scenes that the rating would be different. People have always been harsher when it comes to stuff like that. There is a factor of uncomfortableness that comes along with that and some people end up getting really bothered by it. But why are those people, who end up being uncomfortable with that get to “dictate” the ratings. If all humans are equal, like we say we are then there should not be a different view when it comes to gay or straight sex scenes. Imagine being a gay director in Hollywood trying to make a name for yourself and the movie doesn’t end up being seen by a large audience due to the rating in which it received because of a sex scene.

I also don’t believe it is fair to keep the privacy of these raters names. Basically all information today is public and if not you can request information. The names should be known and the people should not be in the shadows while directors get angry by their decisions. If these people and directors had a decent relationship and co-existed among each other then maybe there wouldn’t be some much hate from the directors in the raters decisions. The directors and raters could share information and directors would not be so surprised when their movie would get rated, and they could help each other out. But at the end of the day the director has a vision on where they want to take their movie and that tends to be more important to them than pleasing the people rating the movie.