The BIG Picture

It’s Friday night, and you’re ready to have some fun. You call all of your friends, make the pans, and you’re off. Your choice– a nice movie to watch and enjoy. After reaching your destination, getting dropped off, and saying goodbye to your parents, you go to the ticket sale counter. “I would like to order (number of people with you) to (movie or your choice),” you say. “Sorry, but that movies is sold out. Would you like to watch another one?” says the lady behind the counter. You look around at all of the advertisements. You ask for your second, third, and fourth choice...all sold out. All they have left to buy tickets for is some lame old “G-Rated” movies and those awesome “R” movies. But you’re 14! There’s no way that you’re going to be seen in a kiddy movie, and they definitely aren’t going to let you into an adult movie. So what’s a teen to do? You reluctantly go inside, use a payphone and it’s couch city for you this Friday. A night ruined all because of a rating system that is totally out of whack.

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By the time we reach 14 we’ve seen over 150% of the things shown in NC-17 movies at least twice. If our parents say yes, we should be able to do as we please at the movies without a chaperone! The M-P-A-A is not a M-O-M so they need to S-T-O-P with the B-A-D decisions on the R-A-T-I-N-G-S!

With freedom of expression on everyone’s agenda, it seems that any attempt to restrict a segment of society from viewing or hearing another’s opinion is stamped with a curse of censorship. Who’s to tell you that something is right or wrong for your eyes? It just doesn’t make sense. But this attempt is only giving teens across America a case of the Big-Screen Blues. Eventually we’ll see it anyways, and restricting us from seeing them just makes us want to see them even more. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) decides the ratings for movies. America is supposed to be the land of the free and home of the brave. But my cry is valid and should be heard. No, of course it doesn’t seem that way, but why would it? They have to sugarcoat it so they can say they’re doing something and make money. Teenagers under 18 know more than people think they do. So who decides these ratings? It is done so by a board of 8 to 13 members whose qualifications include: being a parent, being able to put themselves in the role of most American parents, and possessing “an intelligent maturity. An brave– yea right– the MPAA is breaking that statement by being timid and cowardly by not letting teens see any movie we want. By agreeing with the MPAA’s ratings, you’re kind of letting them tell you what to do.

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