Four Types of Objectionable Movies

 Four Types of Objectional Movies

    I have had interest in film and the arts for most of my life. Safe to say, most Americans do in their own ways. Many or most do not have pretensions in being part of making films, but most of us have some stakes in their presence and content, their influence and impact on us. Some movies are more universally known, others are more marginal or nuanced in the world of art, ideas, and communications.

    Language is a constant fascination and subject for me, which overlaps with film and the arts. Language content can change the rating of a movie, with "adult language" making them more or less suitable to general versus more mature audiences. 

    I have broken down curse words into 4 or 5 categories, and recently I was able to qualify movies into four types that can be objectionable, offensive, disturbing, or not appropriate for most audiences.

    The words that are used are as follows:

    1. Words that are profane. There are terms, phrases, and expletives that use references to God and holy concepts or religious and sacred things. These can include God, or other people or objects and things that one or more groups usually hold reverence for.

    2. Sexual terms, which may refer more to acts than body parts.

    3. Body parts, that are not always involved in sexual things, but can overlap with number two, above.

    4. Racially charged or tinged words. Some are very offensive or derogatory, others are considered less egregious, which can depend on the user and the intent.

    5. Sexist or misogynistic terms, that denigrate people for their identity, sexual preference, or their gender.

    6. Other. There are always a few words that cannot fall under any of the above 1-5, but are still curse words, and can be offensive still. Like references to people born with mental or physical disabilities for example. 

    Some of the words referred to or alluded to as the categories described can make a movie change in audience and acceptance. One curse word can change a movie from G to rated PG. A few more can make it PG-13, and then into R. Or NC-17. Perhaps language can change a movie into the latter, I am not sure. NC-17, which perhaps used to be known as rated X, might be more to do with visual or subject-matter content than language.

    Four types of Offensive Films

    I was thinking of them in the following categories.

    1. Graphically violent.

    2. Overtly sexual or graphically sexual in nature.

    3. Horror and suspense-filled, to include disturbing images or other intense scenes or characters that 

    4. ----

    I had a fourth type, but now it is not fresh in my mind. Maybe irreverent or sacrilegious, or racially hateful or otherwise ethnically insensitive, which can be comedies or other genres. Even documentaries can be all of the above.

    Okay, those are the four types of offensive contents within films that can make them offensive.

    I will stick with that for now.

    Blog it.