The documentary called “This Film is Not Yet Rated” is based on sexual content movies that are given harsh ratings. In 1915 there was a court case called Mutual Film Corp V. Industrial Comm’n of Ohio, the court outright movie censorship. Films were banned from being shown but years later the court reviewed and realized it violated our First Amendment.

In 1999 the motion industry had a group of parents that would rate movies to help other parents what movies should and should not be watched by kids. G stands for general audiences which means no swearing, no sex, no drugs, violence was to be cartoonish. PG stands for parental guidance it can have swearing some minor nudity, and light violence. PG-13 stands for parents strongly cautioned, this has a lot of the word “shit” and allowed to say fuck once. R stands for restricted no children 17 or under, these films have sex themes, sex talk, sexualized nudity, tough language, tough violence. If there is sex it must be missionary. Nc-17 stands for no children 17 or under, these movies will not be released, sex is a problem, but violence was not the problem on why this women’s film was rated Nc-17.  Film makers has no freedom. If film makers do not accept the rating, then they cannot advertise.

In the 1990’s a parent tried to sue a California movie theater because a 13-year-old went to watch a rated R movie called “Dead Presidents”, but the complaint was dismissed.  The Hays Code was from 1930 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code banned lustful kissing, Illegal drug use, Interracial romance, detailed depiction of crime. The words like God and Jesus Christ were banned as well.  In 1968 the first MPAA ratings were created. G was General Audiences, M was mature audiences, R was restricted, and X was no more under 16 admitted. The first movie to be rated R was in 1968 called “the Split”. In 1972 the M rating was changed to PG, in 1984 the PG-13 rating was created.  The first movie that was rated Pg-13 was called “The Flamingo kid” in 1984, in the late 1980s the X rating was replaced with NC-17 in 1990. The movie called “Henry and June” was the first to be rated NC-17.

I feel like this rating movie system is not working anymore. In today’s world kids are raising themselves, little kids are playing killing games that aren’t cartoon form every day, I know some that are saying the word fuck at four years old because their parents are saying it or they heard it from a game or movies. I have been bringing their kids to a rated R movie in the movie theater and the workers let them. Kids might not fully understand what’s happenings, but they are stilled influenced. I remember when I was a child, I was not allowed to do any missions the first GTA which had terrible graphics, the blood was more cartoonish. My father thought I would turn in to a bad child, looking back on that I find funny because now kids are now playing there 4K modern warfare, or other first-person shooting games. Now a days there isn’t a lot of movies that do not have nudity or swearing.