Documentary about 13-year-olds is rated R.
http://entertainment.salon.com/2012/02/29/the_mpaas_bully_outrage/singleton/
Here's an interesting article about Bully, a documentary coming out in March. The movie documents the lives of five students who endure bullying in middle school and high school. There is some controversy about the MPAA's decision to give the movie an R rating due to scenes of thirteen-year-old children using the F word. Do you think the rating is appropriate, even if the movie is targeted toward PG-13 audiences who, as shown by the documentary, are likely to talk like people from an R-rated movie anyway? I think a PG-13 might be more appropriate here, but I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks.
2 comments:
Wierdd are you sure that's the only reason it's rated R - just the presence of the F word? I find that surprising if the F word is the only reason...but then again, I heard that an episode of a Disney preschool show got completely pulled by smp just because a mountain in the bg looked too phallic (it didn't really, btw). haha so maybe I should be surprised.
But I do think it's sad that they would make the movie inaccessible to the age group for whom the movie could have the biggest prosocial impact - middle schoolers! It sounds like a really powerful, moving documentary that could challenge middle schoolers to rethink the ways they treat each other ( I wish I had this back at my middle school where bullying was actually so horrifying the teachers cried over it ). If it ends up being a good documentary, I would encourage all middle schoolers to see the movie anyway, rated R or not.
typo sorry *shouldn't* be surprised
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