Complaint about the plasma center. I feel many in the community would like to know that this took place.

    On June 11 2009, around 10:30 am. I was treated to the horrific spectacle while at the plasma center. It was the first few minutes of the movie “The Kingdom”. When the movie started, it warned the audience before it got to far into the film that it was indeed rated R. Then the “fun” starts. A group of men begin gunning down innocent men, women, and children in graphic detail. Quickly followed by a suicide bombing where more people get torn to pieces by shrapnel from the blast. I approached the counter and confront them about the rating of the film, and publicly showing it in an mainly LDS community. The girl at the counter assures me that it’s the “Clean Flicks” version, and that its safe to show. Assuming that I was being told the truth, I allowed them to plug me into the machine, at that point I would be forced to stay for the duration of the procedure.

    Clean flicks boasts “No Graphic Violence, No Graphic Sexuality, and No Harsh Profanity” (taken from the clean flicks website). After being plugged in, the movie hit a slow point, and I began to relax. About 20 minutes later, the action picks up, and it becomes  very obvious that this is not the Clean flicks version ( I later went online and discovered, that there never was a clean flicks version of the movie made). With more blood, violence, and cussing then I ever saw or heard in my two years as an EMT.

    So here I am, plugged into a machine that’s attached to my circulatory system, so I cant just get up and leave. With a rated R movie on display on close to a dozen TV‘s. I would think that in a mainly LDS community, a company would have enough respect for the company’s patrons and the community to refrain from such behavior. It is also my understanding that the majority of those employed there are also LDS. Why was this movie being shown? Was it just to sate an employs sick idea of entertainment? So there I was, getting paid to watch a rated R movie. If a friend offered my $50 to watch a similar movie, I would out right refuse. Wouldn’t most of us refuse as well? Why was no one saying anything? When the machine had finished. I demanded to see the movies case, to determine its version and rating. Even if it was the clean flicks version (which to my knowledge and the clean flicks web site, there is none) that kind of movie should not have been shown publicly in this community. With little money in hand and my peace of mind in the trash. I left feeling insulted and betrayed. Its not worth my morals and virtues for $50 a week, or any monetary value for that matter. I will never support a company that treats me and others in such a manner where we have to sell our moral values.

-Robert Graham