An R rating! My God!


That this film got an R rating on account of its purported racism only shows the extent to which hipocrisy in the US has got. So-called political correctness will go down in history as one of the stupidest ideas humans have conceived and one of the more harmful initiatives by any country as its results just point out to the opposite it intended when it came aboud some 25 or 30 years ago. In my view, the film aims at just showing how absurd racism is and how it can and ought to be overcome. All peoples in the world are intrinsically racist to different extents, like it or not, and hiding it behind hipocrisy leads to nowhere. Overcoming it is an intellectual effort and requires a significant effort in self-convincing, it won't go away because you start calling blacks "people of African descent" (and wouldn't Charlize Theron or the Princess of Monaco also qualify as "persons of African descent"? After all, both are African-born ...) or people of the indigenous ethniae of the Americas "native" (anyone born in any of the several countries in North, Central or South America is as "native" to that country, regardles of his/her skin colour, as the ethnia targeted with the term, hitherto called "indians"). That's absolutely ridiculous and it is high time the practise ended.

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Americans are a bunch of pussies regarding this indeed. PCness is too high in the US and Canada

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Where did you see that the MPAA rated it? I can't confirm that anywhere. Thanks.

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IMDB's website: Suggested MPAA rating: Rated R for racial content and language.

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I'm pretty sure that means that IMDb users suggested that rating, using the MPAA rating system. The MPAA did not assign a rating to this movie that I can find.

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