{"id":1401,"date":"2009-05-01T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2009-05-01T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:12:07","slug":"how-should-films-be-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"How should films be rated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big movie fan and often go to the cinema. Recently I have seen the film &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsT-Y.html#Watchmen\">here<\/a>] twice: once in London and then again in Prague. As a result of seeing the same work &#8211; one with a fair bit of violence &#8211; in two jurisdictions where the rating was different, I checked out the rating of the film around the world as advised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0409459\/\">Internet Movie Database<\/a>. The result was fascinating.<br \/>\nIn France, you can see &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; if you are 12; in the Philippines, you have to be 13; in Italy, 14 is fine; in the Czech Republic, 15 is the rule; Germany sets the level at 16; here, in the UK, it has an 18 certificate; in Singapore, to see the uncut version, you have to be 21. In Ireland, it was originally rated 18 but this was changed to 16 on appeal. In Canada, it is 13+ in Quebec but 18A in Ontario.<br \/>\nAll this begs the question of whether an age-related system of rating films makes sense. Maybe, above a certain age, anybody should be allowed to see any movie, but the advertising material should make clear the extent of sex, violence, drug-taking, and obscene language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big movie fan and often go to the cinema. Recently I have seen the film &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; [my review here] twice: once in London and then again in Prague. As a result of seeing the same work &#8211; one with a fair bit of violence &#8211; in two jurisdictions where the rating was different, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}