Ch.16 | #5
The current rating system is something that is now and forever absolutely necessary. Desensitizing society through changing the current movie rating system would just be something that in time would be regretted. There is a time a reason to how old one should be to see a certain kind of movie pertaining to certain themes. For example sex and drugs is something that should always be out of reach for young children, since it can be so influential. Same goes for the violence and killing some movies offer; there is a reason you have to be of certain age to see a rated R movie alone, and a pG-13 movie with your parent, or vice verse. Could you imagine a young child around the age of 12 sitting in a movie filled with sex, drugs and alcohol? It would be such a bad environment for a child to base their lifestyle off of. Also filling a young person’s head with vulgar language and hatred words and actions is something that will set the stage in their young minds for real life violence and hatred. Keeping the rating system as it is with having enjoyable happy, loving G movies for young tots, to PG movies for almost the whole family, with some parental guidance needed. And again the PG-13 movie rating in which parents are cautioned, and the material that film holds may not be appropriate for children under 13, again depending on their maturity level. The rated R requires anyone under 17 to be accompanied with a parent, again allowing there to still be parental control over what you wish you child to watch or what not to watch without the parents consent. Finally the NC-17 rating does not let anyone under the age of 17 with or without a parent to view, meaning that there is content in the movie that is not appropriate for even a more mature teen viewer. This rating system is an excellent way to let a guardian know whether or not a certain movie s acceptable for the person they are more or less responsible for what they are subjected too. Some movies today push the line, or limit of what the actual rating should be, so having the rating system to be changed or decreased would be something that parents should be concerned with what is not being more acceptable for young viewers to watch. Again desensitizing the mind of young innocent viewers is not something you want to encourage, in time they will learn and know what type of awful things society and the media has to offer but until then let the young stay innocent. In this case knowing is not everything, and therefore some things are worth waiting for.