I believe the rating system is very dated and need to be updated. The rating system was made to prevent people from being exposed to material that can suggest: violence, drug, or sexual content. I think it’s attainable idea that we are trying to totally protect people from being exposed to certain things. I think that there does come a time when people can be exposed to certain things and understand but I don’t believe it the MPAA’s business to decide when that is. The rating system chooses an age that it think is appropriate to handle a subject and it’s dumb.
Age is a number the it doesn’t distinguish whether a person is mature enough to handle a subject. There are many people that can handle certain material and not take it to heart and I think age has nothing to do with when a person can deal with something or not. The rating system should be up to the parent to decide when they believe their child or teen can handle the subject matter.
The nature of the word adult has nothing adult about it. There are a slew of movie on the market that just promote crude humor, and really have no plot, those movies really I could care less about. But there are some really good ones that are true to the human experience that their message is almost silenced because they have a drug or sex scene, and rated R. I think the rating should be relevent to what the movie suggests good movie can have suggestive thing but have a great message.
I don’t think you can put a limit on movies with suggestive material because you cant put a rating on life. You cant protect people from things they can come across in life. I mean realistically we live in word where girls can be molested, kids have drug addict parents, and domestic abuse happens. we cant shelter people an leave them in the dark, or deny them of material. When we do that in a way become how South Africa was in the 1960’s, where they did watch shows with black actors or have music by black recording artists. I think by filtering material were denying the people of experiencing something real.