To try and start a campaign to stop the uk release of 'A Serbian film'

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I'm not suggesting anyone read the synopsis as that's disgusting enough. But I don't know how the government can allow this disgusting film to be released!

Surely this sort of film encourages paedophillia and violent rape.

There are more slaves alive now than there has been before at any time in the history of the world. The majority of this is sex trafficking.

I'm revolted that a film like this can be given even a censored release date (10th)

I think the Independent reveiwer has hit the nail on the head. The film is riven with a self loathing. Certainly, it seemed to come across from the film makers in the interview I read.

Wiki 'This is a diary of our own molestation by the Serbian government... It's about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don?t want to do. You have to feel the violence to know what it?s about."[22]

But critics have slated this idea because of the degree of violence and sexual degredation.

I don't buy it - it's a film and it is what it is and it sounds absolutely foul.

I have said quite a bit about that dittany. If you read my posts.

The reviewer said that the film makers themselves stated the film was allegorical. They point to being manipulated by their government, which obviously brings in what happened in the wars.

You said only people on mumsnet were trying to bring up an allegorical theme. I proved that was not the case.

Yes I think so too Litchick.

The film makers are being very disingenuous though.
They are marketing their film as horror but are describing it as an allegory of Serbia and the Balkan war?

Whatever the allegory, people who see it will come out and comment on the guy who killed someone with his erect penis, not the rape of national identity created by years of conflict and civil war.

Well I think it is a bit odd that you wouldn't see the correlation - the Independent reviewer certainly did.

And, so the question remains - should a line ever be drawn in the name of art?

I am not silly, I work in Social Care/Domestic Abuse and have come across the most horrific real life stories. I know the world isnt fluffy bunny, but it is MY responsibility as an adult to learn about the world, the god ... and the bad.

I do NOT need arthouse crap to show the the atrotocies of the world. Or allude to them.

I just think that the comes a time as a modern, decent society that we say 'No, we don't want to see that for entertainment'.

I have previously posted that torture porn/gorno fims have shown that one film will always try to outdo the othe on the controvrsy stakes. Where the hell do we go from this little gem? Do we say 'Oh, its ok that XXX just did YYY to ZZZ in the most horrific and brutal manner as it represnts the sufferring of AAA during BBB?

Sorry about the spelling

I think you're right toddlerwrangler in that these films try to outdo one another and this has done the same.

Woohhooooooooooooo! I'm right! On MN of all places :o !!

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Got to agree BTW - I don't see this as a feminist issue, I see it as a moral issue.

Don't you try to put me on a fake defensive dittany. Just because you can't think of another way to win the argument.

Can I just say that I have never seen the word 'allegory' and it's derivatives used more at any time in my life than on this thread.

FWIW, if it's supposed to be an allegory, it's a really shit and tenuous one.

You've obviously misunderstood me. I do think the film fuels the persecution and oppression of women. I have repeatedly said it sounds like a dehumanising film. All I have added is that it seems to have a very symbolic, if utterly repellent, ending, and is aiming for allegory.

I get the feeling this 'allegory' argument made by the makers of the film is, well, an excuse and cover up for their fucked up and sick little video. I don't think we should even give it the time of day personally.

dittany never stop voicing your opinion eventually (perhaps not today) it will be heard...

The allergory is a load of bollocks...

Dittany has been heard rather more than anyone else Mumcentreplus.

What is it you really object to about what posters here have said?