BBFC stands for British Board of Film Classification, a group of people that specializes in certificating movies, for example, PG, U, 12 etc. In one of our lesson, we were to analyze short sequences from different films and decided whether they were PG or U (they were all childrens film). Most of them were PG, containly hardly, if not no violence at all, cursing, discrimination or "disturbing" images. One of them was a U, which was fairly amusing as there was a hint of slapstick that was fortunately censored if it was shown to a younger audience. However, when we watched a squence from "Watership Down", I was taken by surprise from the amount of blood and violence it had in it despite being a childrens film. It was certificated a PG which is ridiculous with the amount of "12" content in it. It was made a fairly long time ago however, so certificating then mustn't have been as solid as it is now.
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