censorship

Since my stuff has now gone and I'm heading to Melbourne on Thursday morning, I decided to go and see Sin City this afternoon. It was a good movie - well shot, well acted, good design and performances. I wasn 't at all surprised to find that Quentin Tarantino did a guest director spot for one of the scenes; it's just his kind of genre, and the structure and content of the story take a bit from Pulp Fiction. Can't speak to whether the film is a good adaptation of Frank Miller's stuff, though, having never looked at it.

What really baffled and angered me was the rating it got - MA (15+). I'm not at all conservative about these things, and I probably wouldn't mind my hypothetical fifteen year old child of the right maturity level watching this film, even though it deals either explicitly or implicitly with gang murders, rape, domestic violence, child abuse, cannibalism, BDSM, prostituion, police corruption and evil men who turn yellow. It would make for quite the parent-child discussion afterwards, but that'd be okay with me as long as I felt my kid could handle the movie without getting deeply upset in the first place.

( musing about censorship (and some minor spoilers) under the cut )