Friday, May 6, 2011

Movies & Censorship

My most recent post I had spoken about the ridiculous banning of one of the world's most loved arcade games, and this post I will talk about censorship and movies.

So many movies have been banned for all the right reasons, but the awful thing is that these movies that have been banned, the Censorship board lifts these bans. As an example, a disgusting movie that had been made based on a "true" story, is "Cannibal Holocaust". The day that I saw that DVD on the shelves at JB Hi-Fi, I read the blurb and remember my stomach twist. My father had watched this film and was even more disgusted with this, than the Saw series which are also controversial films.

The rumours of this movie is that the director had created a "snuff" movie, which means that the court he had been taken to had the suspicions that some of the actors had died on set, and that was the whole purpose of the film, to create something that people believe is fake, but is real. And it is also we known that the animal slayings that occur in the film, are 100% real, with real animals, how disgusting! I honestly do not understand how this movie could even make the shelves.
If you have no idea about this film, please take this link and read up on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust

And even then, there are some films that have been released to the public that have never been banned. One of these examples being the Saw series. These contain disgusting and pointless acts of brutal, gory violence, such as a group of people being stuck on a spinning wheel and at random moments victims being shot brutally by a high powered machine gun, one by one. At another time, a man being stuck on a vault and having to saw his own arm off to free himself. These are disgusting acts that should not be shown in the cinema, and also should be banned from public viewing.

I still have no idea why these movies are only rated MA15+ because these definitely deserve to be banned.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had been banned when it had first came out, and  yet, it is nothing compared to some of the movies that are created nowadays, such as the Saw series. I don't know what the Classification board are thinking but they have clearly lost their touch.

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