R-rated Jesus
R rating for "violence."
Now, no doubt there is indeed violence in a film that features crucifixions and stonings. But to hand out an 'R' rating to a Jesus film in Latin strikes me as underlining the inherent inanity of the whole "parental guidance" ethos and the whole censorious malarkey that underlines the movie ratings system to begin with. Of the several obnoxious features of life in these States, the notion that it is possible and desirable to preserve "innocent children" from images and ideas their parents find unpleasant is one of the worst.
The problem is that nobody seems willing to contest whether this is:
* possible;
* desirable;
* any of Mom or Dad's business.
The whole load of dung needs to be called out for the crap that it is.
It would appear that the MPAA has chosen to give Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ an Now, no doubt there is indeed violence in a film that features crucifixions and stonings. But to hand out an 'R' rating to a Jesus film in Latin strikes me as underlining the inherent inanity of the whole "parental guidance" ethos and the whole censorious malarkey that underlines the movie ratings system to begin with. Of the several obnoxious features of life in these States, the notion that it is possible and desirable to preserve "innocent children" from images and ideas their parents find unpleasant is one of the worst.
The problem is that nobody seems willing to contest whether this is:
* possible;
* desirable;
* any of Mom or Dad's business.
The whole load of dung needs to be called out for the crap that it is.
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