Showing this weekend, the movie This Film Is Not Yet Rated attempts to take a swipe at the mysterious and often self-contradicting MPAA ratings system. Who are the top secret members who decide what can and cannot be seen in movies today? Dana Stevens from Slate takes a peek into the unknown:
The movie is both clever and ruthless at exposing the ratings board’s inconsistencies and hypocrisy. Critics and film scholars, as well as directors and actors, show up to muse over the ineffable standards of the board: How do they know what obscenity is when they see it? “I think there is definitely, like, a thrust number,” laughs indie director Allison Anders, over a montage of vigorous onscreen humping in recent films like Storytelling, The Cooler, and The Dreamers. Maria Bello wonders aloud what it was that made a second-long glimpse of her pubic hair in The Cooler more offensive than the blood and guts on abundant display in Sin City.
The poster that musn’t be seen,
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