The director of Bully, a documentary about bullying in schools, says he does not want to water down his film’s message by editing out the rough language that earned it an R rating.

His stance means it will be much harder for the movie to be seen by its target audience: bullied kids.

“It’s a film for them, it’s about them,” Bully director Lee Hirsch said in a phone interview with Wired.com. Hirsch says the harsh talk is essential to get across how bad bullying can be for children picked on for being “geeks” or for being “different” in other ways. “That’s why the irony is so incredible — it’s like they can’t see a film that’s real based on what’s happening all over the place. The language is real.”

Dear Film Classification Boards,

Please take the time to consider a work in its own context, and come up with a rating accordingly.

“Bully” is not a work of fiction, filled with gratuitous swearing to try and appear cool. It is a documentary that accurately portrays how kids and teens talk and act.

This is a film that every child – certainly, every high school student – should be able to see. Every school should have a copy in their library. Ideally we’d be able to get Lee Hirsch around the world to localise it for each region.

MPAA: revise this decision now. Let this movie been seen.

The actor who voiced The Robot from classic 1960s TV show Lost In Space has died at the age of 85.

Character actor Dick Tufeld passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on Sunday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Very sad; I grew up on re-runs of Lost In Space, and always held out hope they’d try another movie, only this time one that didn’t suck.

I want one. Might need to do something about air-conditioning the back yard so the poor snow leopard doesn’t die of heat stroke, but it’d be worth it.