Screenings of 'Audition' on Film4 (Freeview)
Peter Green, 27 Aug 2006 11:36:48
The award-winning Japanese horror/romance film 'Audition' is being
shown on Freeview channel Film4 in the early hours of Sunday
(tomorrow) and next Friday. (If you've never seen it, and don't want
to be spoiled about why it's relevant, close this e-mail now,
otherwise scroll down....
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A lonely Japanese widower holds fake film auditions to find a new
girlfriend. The sweet girl he falls for turns out to be a raging
psychopath, who in the graphic climax slips him a drug to leave him
paralysed but conscious, and starts sticking acupuncture needles in
his eyes and sawing his feet off.
I might add that the pilot episode of US FBI drama 'Numb3rs' was
recently repeated on Channel Five at a pre-watershed 8pm and featured
graphic scenes of a dead woman suffocated with a plastic bag over the
head, and the final victim shown in the process of choking as she is
rescued.
I can only assume that our authorities are not so much concerned about
violent images per se, but more by people being introduced to the
concept that BDSM might actually be fun.
(Which begs the question as to why 'Hellraiser' is still allowed to be
shown despite Clive Barker being on record that he hoped couples would
come out of the cinema thinking that a bit of pain and bondage might
be worth a try!)
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Peter
ian Griffiths, 31 Aug 2006 17:11:56
Perhaps there is another approach. Use the powers introduced by this legislation to bring prosecutions against the Television Broadcasting Companies, Film Distributors and the BBFC. Then someone might realise what the impilcations are.
I think we have a lot to thank Mary Whitehouse for, without her 'campaign' there would be a lot less freedom than we have today.
Ian
Author wrote:
> The award-winning Japanese horror/romance film 'Audition' is being
> shown on Freeview channel Film4 in the early hours of Sunday
> (tomorrow) and next Friday.
Paul C. Dickie, 06 Sep 2006 23:09:47
In message <4c36c0520608260710x60d13c28re0685e6828f95dfe@mail.gmail.com>
, Peter Green wrote:
>A lonely Japanese widower holds fake film auditions to find a new
>girlfriend. The sweet girl he falls for turns out to be a raging
>psychopath, who in the graphic climax slips him a drug to leave him
>paralysed but conscious, and starts sticking acupuncture needles in
>his eyes and sawing his feet off.
>
>I might add that the pilot episode of US FBI drama 'Numb3rs' was
>recently repeated on Channel Five at a pre-watershed 8pm and featured
>graphic scenes of a dead woman suffocated with a plastic bag over the
>head, and the final victim shown in the process of choking as she is
>rescued.
>
>I can only assume that our authorities are not so much concerned about
>violent images per se, but more by people being introduced to the
>concept that BDSM might actually be fun.
I'd doubt that either of those could really be considered to be BDSM as
consent (informed or otherwise) seems to be conspicuously lacking. Both
movies would be better classed as 'horror' and, given the real horrors
of terrorism to which Blair's barmy army has subjected the populace as a
whole, perhaps such images are considered to be beneficial as they may
have some desensitising effect.
>(Which begs the question as to why 'Hellraiser' is still allowed to be
>shown despite Clive Barker being on record that he hoped couples would
>come out of the cinema thinking that a bit of pain and bondage might
>be worth a try!)
Do not expect any logic or sense from Il Presidente Blair, for he seems
to have avoided both up to now.
He seems to imagine that he can make society better and crimes vanish
just by passing more and more laws, apparently oblivious to the lesson
he should have learned from the failure of King Canute to make the tide
retreat. But then, Blair was neither crowned nor anointed; his own
delusions of adequacy seem to have developed over time.
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Artisan