[thechat] Hollywood Movies and Families

[Plunkett, Matt]

American movies have a rating system.  I don't want to browse the MPAA at
work, but you can check out their website to see the differences between PG,
PG-13, etc: www.mpaa.org.  The ratings are mostly a guideline, which I think
is a good idea.  Unfortunately imho, many communities make laws about which
ages can see which movies. Censoring art in the name of morality is not a
good idea, especially in a pluralistic society like the US.  If you don't
like it, don't watch it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Syed Zeeshan Haider [SMTP:szh at softhome.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:34 PM
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> Subject:	[thechat] Hollywood Movies and Families
> The Concern:
>         The concern is kissing or some sexually erotic scenes. No
> matter, what the theme is, almost each movie can contain some kissing
> and sexually erotic scenes.
>
> Kids here are often attracted by movies but such scenes oblige their
> parents to keep their kids away from movies. Often children view the
> edited and censored movies on TV. Many adults don't want to view such
> movies with their female relatives (like Mother, Sisters, Aunts,
> Cousins, Daughter etc.)and sometimes male relatives also (like Father,
> Brothers, Sons etc.). They like censored movies with their families.
> Pakistan Television often telecast movies but censors them without
> affecting their story and theme.