Director Kirby Dick explores the mysterious world of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a secretive organization tasked with rating films in the United States. This Film Is Not Yet Rated takes a look at the history of the MPAA as a self censoring body established by the US film industry, which is predominately controlled by a small handful of massive corporations.
What is the MPAA? Where did it come from? How does it act as a tool for controlling and manipulating American culture and the information that citizens take in? For that matter, who are they?
Watch the film to find out, but for starters they are unelected, appointed by a conservative republican, and include two representative of religious denominations.
Decide for yourself, but it appears clear that the MPAA is an anti-democratic organization bent on imposing their reactionary views on society as a whole. The organization should be disbanded entirely and replaced with either a transparent and elected body, or nothing at all. At any rate, this is an eye opening film which is well worth a watch.
4 bigoted censors out of 5
Contains some nudity, sexuality, language.
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