The Dark Knight’s12A certificate was under scrutiny this week as The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) came under fire by Keith Vaz of the Home Affairs Select Committee, who was less than happy that the film has a 12A status due to its violence and bleak tone.
Keith said “The BBFC should realise there are scenes of gratuitous violence in The Dark Knight, to which I certainly would not take my 11-year-old daughter. It should be a 15 certificate.”
However, the BBFC defended its decision, as the film never showed any violence in explicit detail.
Sue Clark from the BBFC said giving the film a 15 rating would prevent the majority of the Batman fan base from watching it.
Extras:“Younger teenagers would not have been able to see it, and they are the very people who are going to love it,” she explained. “We would have ended up with far more complaints from people who wanted to see the film and couldn’t.”
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