The rating came partly because the film shows images of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, images Moore says he had long before the scandal erupted.
Despite what some might think, the senator insists he was not reminded of his own experience, more than three decades ago, when he saw the photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners, images he calls "so horrific it defies my imagination".
Bette has had to do that with the Divine Miss M, and Sue had to do with her fearless, take-no-prisoners image in Hollywood".
Like the moving images of the atomic bomb's mushroom cloud and the skin-and-bones condition of Buchenwald prisoners, these images must be shown so that the world will remember the evil that was inflicted.
After working on this for several months, the project was cancelled, for reasons having to do with ownership of the prisoner's image.
Prisoners like this image too, because the reality of incarceration is just repetition and tedium.
But they could not see in full the disturbing images of captured and killed American prisoners of war, images from Al Jazeera television that were shown repeatedly on Iraqi television and throughout the world.
Hours later, Iraqi television broadcast pictures, quickly beamed around the Arab world, of five frightened-looking American prisoners, and gory images of at least five dead Americans.
In "Boxed Set," a sort of "greatest hits" show, this star again demonstrates the supreme physical control of a Balanchine dancer and a funny, troubling sense of how women can be prisoners of their images (2 00).
In "Boxed Set," a sort of "greatest hits" show, the star again demonstrates the supreme physical control of a Balanchine dancer and a funny, troubling sense of how women can be prisoners of their images (2 00).
But they did leave the public with an abiding image of prisoners taking it easy, while law-abiding people have to work hard to earn a living in difficult economic times.
