My time at the Irish film classification office was a short but fun and interesting experience.
During the talk we had with the gentleman i learned how they usually rate films in Ireland
versus how we in america rate movies in america, and also how more strict america is when
rating films with classifications like how if a film has too many words swears in ireland or
anywhere else in Europe, at the most the film may become rated 15A or maybe 16, but in the
US if a film has more than one F bomb it will become rated R.
It was also really cool how my class got to rate one of the short films that they had showed us, i
originally thought they weren’t going to show us something to wild but i was quickly proven
wrong by the man committing suicide at the very begining of the film and once it finally ended
We Rated it a 16, basically the equivalent to an R rating in america.
One thing i found pretty interesting is that they also rate video games as well but they don’t
actually play them, they usually get sent videos of the content and gameplay which i thought
was pretty funny.
As someone whos wants to get a job in film im really glad that i had gotten the chance to come
to the Irish film classification and experience this and i would definitely want to see if i could go
back there someday.