{"id":457,"date":"2006-02-14T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/02\/14\/rated-r\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T16:03:09","slug":"rated-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/02\/14\/rated-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Rated R"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once had a discussion with someone a couple of years ago about the movie The Breakfast Club<\/a><\/cite>. This individual stated that the film was rated R and I did not believe it. I could have sworn it was rated lower. So I did a bit of sleuthing and I discovered something interesting. This individual was correct: it was rated R. The thing is though that the R rating was a US rating; in Canada, it was rated PG-13.<\/p>\n

This brought up an interesting conversation: when the Brethren state that we should not watch R-rated films, are they referring to US ratings, or are they referring to the ratings of the films where one lives? Should I have based my decision to watch The Breakfast Club<\/cite> on the US system (where the general authorities live), or should I have based it on my local rating system?<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is something the brethren recognised, and that is why we rarely hear this specific counsel anymore.<\/p>\n

Which actually brings up something else. What about films that were originally R-rated, but have been edited to remove objectionable content? While it may be true that one would be following the letter of the law in not watching an R-rated film per se, it is also true that at some point the R-rated film had to be purchased. In one sense, such an individual would still be supporting R-rated movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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