This Film Is Not Yet Rated

For Waters’ guileless admission “I know a lot of perverts...”, I would gladly give this film a full five-star rating, but its objective shortcomings, such as its lack of objectivity, won’t allow me to do that. If you want to prove at any cost that the MPAA is a non-transparent organisation in which a group of mysterious beings scheme against free-thinking filmmakers, you can do that (comparison of individual scenes is pointless when the rating relates to the content of the whole film). At the same time, it is necessary to take into consideration what this documentary doesn't take into consideration. If CARA had not been established, films like The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver and several thousand others could not have been made, and we would still take offence at every F-word heard in a Hollywood film, and we would be unaware that cinema is enriched by the works of such lovable deviants as Waters, who, incidentally, is the only one to offer a few constructive comments (the effect of current political events on the strictness of rating films). Furthermore, it was the demonised Jack Valenti who at the end of the 1960s publicly defended the right of filmmakers to express themselves through appropriate cinematic means with respect to the events that drive society. Forgetting is just as easy as criticising. In short, entertainment and indifference won out over truth and respect. 70% (04.12.2011)