"If We All Do it Together, We Will Change the World"

I have yet to see
Bully, but I know from personal experience watching anyone, especially someone
you love be bullied is heart breaking. This film will hit close to home, but I
really hope that people hear its message and not let it's R rating stop their families
from seeing the film. Journalist Andrea Peyser of The New York Post, writes
about the film, and says how utterly shocked she was while watching the movie.
Not because it was inappropriate, but because she didn't know this stuff was
actually going on in schools, and not just with teenagers but younger kids. The
film is centered around 12 year old Alex who is the victim of bullying. Peyser
mentions the saddest part of the movie isn't when Alex is at school, but at
home rather. People don't often recognize that bullying isn't seen from all
angles. The movie shows the realism of bullying, from the many F-bombs (to
which it received its R rating for) to the personal struggles Alex goes through
at home and at school, feeling alone. If, however, the MPAA deemed this film
PG-13 instead because of the message it's conveying, not because of the
multiple F-bombs throughout, does that mean all movies should be rated on their
message and not the content? How would this be fair in the ratings system, if
that system is even fair to begin with?