It is even ironic to think that this film got rated NC-17 originally. The rating was then surrendred after they probably felt stupid for doing that. Kirby Dick's excellent expose of the MPAA is brilliant and very revealing. The most important question that the film raises is why do they value sex over violence? Well, they never do reach a consesus, but with some careful spying on them, the film does a really great job.
Although all of the views in the interviews in the film are insightful, I don't agree with all of them. One interviewee raised the point that graphic violence should be thought of as more appropriate than bloodless gun violence because when it is graphic, it is more realistic. That makes no sense at all! Are you suggesting that Sin City should be rated PG-13? It barely escapes an NC-17 in my mind.
There isn't very much to say about this film, but it is worth anybody who watches movies' time. This is a real eyeopener and one has to wonder why Americans are so hung up on some of the stuff highlighted in the movie. It's little things that cause movies to be rated NC-17, for instance gay sex versus straight sex or male masturbation versus female masturbation. It's sad that we as Americans cannot take a movie like Lust, Caution, but we can handle the Saw series. It just makes no sense.
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