Now, onto the movie. I can gladly say that this new rating system somehow is up to the par of many other censorship board around Asia. The F-bombs are not censored (well, at least initially) and can clearly be audible in the movie. The violence is there for the most part. Violent gunshot blood squirt and dismemberment are aplenty in this movie and they seem to be left out untouched; though most of the violence in this movie is so fake and unconvincing, at least to your truly. There are a few parts of the movie that has been noticeably left out, in which I predict the scenes were of obscene vulgarity in words. They might be still a few parts that was left out but not that I notice any. The censorship in this didn't break the movie. They were few and insignificant to the media. I would say the current censorship is heading the right way.
Before some of you go guns ablaze on me, I would like to say that I am not for violence and profanity. But I am all for dynamic thinking. I think the new censorship guidelines are heading the right way because it's not trying to babysit the viewers. They have been informed earlier that the movie will contain adult content and if they happen to disregard the remark and still bring the minors to watch it (or be it the minors went themselves), every single social impact is to be carried along on their own. By not censoring the movie to a certain degree, the movie will be conveyed closer to how they intended to be viewed by the creators of the movie and the viewers won't feel like they're being monitored about all the time. Adult viewers should uphold to their own responsibility as an adult and be responsible about what they are viewing by not condoning it or even try to imitate it. The new censorship board expects the viewer to be smart enough to take care of their own well being. Well, unless you are not then you might need to bring a few friends that are, just in case. How do you measure whether you are or not is up to you. The censorship board are also being smart because they know no matter how much they censor every mundane scenes in the movie, they are still accessible to other media by anyone of any age. It'll be better if they just leave it as it is in order to preserve the authenticity of the movie because, like I said, the viewers were informed of the adult content. Just don't watch it if you are just going to complain later.
This is the internet age where media are spread easily around the net. For every single sexual, violence and profanity content that are on the movie, a similar level or maybe even worse; far far worse are accessible on the internet. I believe that at the end of the day the success of censorship is governed by the parents and guardians themselves and how they enforce it to their young lings. All of this adult contents will be around permanently. It ain't nice and I'm not supporting it but we know there's nothing we can do to prevent it from being here. Be a smart viewer; a smart citizen and evaluate everything that has been presented to you, not just media but everything. That way no matter what is the issue at hand it can be evaluated as optimal as it should be.
*Everything here is purely my opinion and everyone has their right to object conditionally. There might be mistakes here and there but I am human after all.
