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

[spidersandglue]

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)

Well I agree many will watch it for sadistic titillation. I don't agree that making a violent film depicting a man being forced to commit abuse of all kinds cannot be a metaphor for the things people in the Balkans had to endure/were forced to carry out. I think the concept may have merit. But no idea if it is executed well - it may be abhorrent, you may be right. I do not know.

Would have been nice to have had a warning in the thread title, thanks.

Agree stayfrosty.

Please nobody read that synopsis, it's made me feel ill and upset

My friend has seen the film for his work. That's what piqued my interest.

also the title says it all 'A Serbian Film' - it is stating that this is a film that is about Serbia, that summs up all that the people have been through in recent history.

sums

I'd be amazed if there was any deeper meaning in this beyond "what will get most attention, and possibly earn us notoriety Clockwork Orange (film) style" (Nb : banning Clockwork Orange stopped it's influence dead... didn' t it?)

Dittany my friend said that the principal victim in the film is actually the male character.

there is and will never be any reason whatsoever to show a baby being raped , it is a case of a person breaking every taboo imaginable for personal gain and calling it art or saying it conveys a message . This is a film made primarily for entertainment and the filmakers know once the public become aware of the content there will be an outcry which ulitmately leads to publicity for the film and higher sales due to people watching out of sheeer curiosity much like the human centipede.This should have never been made.

A baby isn't shown to be raped though

I have a special interest in the misogyny and violence depicted against women in horror films dittany. I honestly do not know where this film fits on that spectrum as I have not seen it. I do know however, that it does have an allegorical theme, which is more than can be said for all the hollywood and british misogynist shit that has come out in the last ten years showing absolutely disgusting rape and murder of women for absolutely nothing other than entertainment.

The clue is in the title.

Can I ask again.. what would stopping it being released over here actually achieve?

Besides;

• making it into a forbidden temptation
• giving it more press

Hey Spidersandglue, no worries.

I agree with you. This film is just revolting and pointless.

Just that reading the synopsis was awful. I was thinking who on earth could possibly write such a thing.

I do not like censorship (grew up in Singapore) but this film? Should be banned.

drfayray Why? What benefit does banning have?

Exactly Dirty Martini! the director states he wants the viewer to experience what has happened to the Balkan people the disgust,despair the outrage etc..

All he has achieved is a mediocre (at best judging by the reviews)film that will be over-shadowed by its reprehensible content and have little political, social value or impact...it will be watched by who exactly?..

it sounds like an angry film made and financed by angry sick young men..surely not what was intended right

I would watch that Steam-roller one though...sounds like a classic

I am not defending it. I am saying I cannot say whether what the film's makers claim to be trying to achieve is true without seeing it.

I know...hard to justify banning but just that I feel that this film (and have not seen it) is just too graphic and sometimes people have to be protected.

That synopsis...it is like 'oh this is horrible, surely it cannot get worse? Why, yes it can and does...'

Oh for goodness sake dittany I do not have any 'faith' in the director. I know a bit about the Balkans and think the metaphor of this film is apt. The title is very clear in saying this is a film about Serbia. I have said many times it may be an absolutely abhorrent film. I do not know. Because I have not seen it. And do not want to judging from the content.