I was heartened to hear that Wolf of Wall Street did not
win an award of any kind. Still, I felt it was a tragedy that it had been
nominated. I know it is a world of free speech but I also know there is a movie
rating structure to protect people like me from the filth that others find entertaining.
I paid to go see it knowing it was “R” rate. The film was grossly miss-rated. I
was pornographic and should not have been available for public viewing. I lasted
less than five minutes before walking out.
That being the case, how could the academy have nominated it
for an award? Are my standards that much different from what others think. Does
this film set a new standard for what “R” rating now means. The theater manager
told me I was not the only one to leave in disgust; at least some agree with
me. I hope they agree with me to the point where they are not willing to see another
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DeCaprio film.
I traced my “disconnect” to RelishMix, an analytic company
that has clearly mixed social curiosity with social acceptability. They claim
to have looked at 40 million data points and declared this film to be the
online favorite. News Papers and TV shows often make the same mistake of trying
to satisfy everyone. They publish pictures of the most ghoulish or sexually
explicit thing while at the same time censor out the most gruesome or most revealing
part. A poll would show that millions of people looked at the published picture
but do not indicate that what made them acceptable for public viewing was that
the bad parts were covered. Perhaps it would have been a fine film if they turned
off the sound tract and blackened the picture. As it was, the film had no merit.
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