Unfortunately I find that true. R ratings are the default for adult audiences very often.
The thing is though, movies don't Need many of these things.
very very rarely have I watched something that contained something that would only be rated R and found it to be beneficial to my life. The particular example I am thinking of is the Child Molestation scene in Elfen Leid which I found fundamentally affected the way I viewed child exploitation. It was never very real before then. Your obvious question here is why I was watching Elfein Leid in the first place, which the answer to that is that It was the favorite anime of my best friend and I watched it at her insistence.
For my philosophy class I watched the Phonebooth, which was an excellent movie, but I could never buy it because there simply was too much profanity. It is simply not necessary to have more then 3-4 F words in a movie max. Any more then that and you seriously devalue the impact of the word. I believe the Phonebooth had around 40 or so. All this does it make me feel uncomfortable especially if there are other people around. I don't want to use profane language, and listening to it does nothing but makes it more likely I would speak it.
The only possible exception to profanity in movies may be if you were trying to reenact urban new york or something to that effect, but that is certainly the exception and not the rule.
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