Monday, October 13, 2008

Peace is not treason

The freedom museum is a little nook of history located into between booming capitalistic stores. At fist I was skeptical, but for what it was it delivered a message. Everyone enjoys their freedoms that we are given, why can't anyone go learn about them in a museum for free? My favorite exhibit featured Films that had to be altered or fought to be unaltered in order to be viewed with the directors vision while still being under the code the united states uses to rate movie and either deem them appropriate or inappropriate. You had to listen to the film's dilemma then decided if they crossed a line or not. After voting it shows you how many people agreed and disagreed. I felt that everyone was always on my side and felt that comic books, movies, video games and books should be able to be about whatever the author intends. If you don't want to look at something because its offensive to you , than don't, don't try to ruin it for everyone else. I lot of responsibility goes along with rating pieces of media that make it mainstream. It's your responsibility to decide who is mature enough to see it. I can see why the boards rate movies and whatnot, but I don't think it should be as strict. I'm not a psychologist, but I've seen American Psycho and it hasn't inspired me to kill hookers and hobos. Just saying.

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