They had to re-submit it with “profanity edits,” which is unfortunate, but I feel confident that the message will still be powerful, and now school kids can watch it.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/bully-documentary-gets-rating-change-to-pg-13-after-edited-version-is-submitted/
This high school took anti-bullying campaigns to a whole new level!
The entire student body at Cypress Ranch High School in Texas (in the same district that Asher Brown went to school) participated in the lip dub of a song written and performed by one of their classmates.
They did this as part of a contest for an anti-bullying video, and you can vote for them here: http://nobull.votigo.com/contests/showentry/1042123?v=50
I feel like these days, in order for a movie with any violent content to get a PG-13 rating, you have to trivialize the violence, take all of the emotion and suffering out of death…
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the R rating of the documentary film “Bully,” which is about real-life situations in which kids are verbally abused to the point of wanting to not live anymore.
So I guess we’re not trying to protect kids from violence; we’re trying to protect them from emotion? Is that the new system?
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Hank Green, vlogbrother. I think that this is brilliant, and very important. |
Ravi is the man who used his webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man in a sexual encounter and then broadcast it. Clementi committed suicide shortly after.
Ravi has been found guilty of several crimes including witness tampering and bias intimidation, and could face up to 10 years in prison. He could also be deported following his sentence.
The Gay Rights Movement
It’s very interesting to see how far we’ve come, and yet how far we still have to go.
This follows the announcement of the suicide of EricJames Borges last week.
