C'mon MPAA

Because American standards are based on more Puritanical beliefs. It's in our country's roots and values, regardless of whatever we say otherwise.

I don't really care that she's nude--though it was surprising at first, not every day you come to your hotel to a nude--but plenty others would.

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¡No hay la banda!

I agree, the MPAA ratings standards are total CRAP!! They are extremely sexist, too! They allow full male genital nudity to be shown (not just pubic hair but also the testicles and penis) in several movies and usually only give it an R rating for nudity. But they won't allow a woman's labia or clitoris to be shown. If a woman's actual vagina is shown, they give it an NC-17 rating. How come penises are passed with an R rating but vaginas are given an NC-17 rating?? Its a sexist double-standard! Since most theaters won't run NC-17 movies, filmakers cannot make NC-17 rated films, thus the vagina can never be seen! The vagina is thus effectively censored. How ridiculous. The vagina is just part of the female body, the same as the penis is part of the male body. It is not obscene and should not be rated any more harshly than the penis.

This film merely showed bush, not even actual genitalia, and yet it was rated R for 'GRAPHIC nudity". That was NOT graphic nudity. Unless we get to see full female genitalia (labia or anus) it is not graphic nudity. Somebody needs to file a lawsuit against the MPAA for their unfair, sexist, and one-sided rating standards.

Hey, I know - totally agree.

When the film finished and I saw the 'R' I was like hey, that's such a great little coda to the film's message: we get to see sexual exploitation and graphic violence daily and we get 'R' rating in a film that is deliberately removing SEX, GUNS, AND SWEARING from the film to make its (largely political) point.

well, you know what? NO LIMITS NO CONTROL!