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 disagree and think you are missing the point, but you see things through a particular prism, and I respect that.

We would do well to remember that there's imagery as sick, if not sicker than this, at considerable length, in the bible.

Much as I'd like to ban that book, I don't think we can.

"Did people need to see allegories of the holocaust to know how bad it was?"

Absolutely they do.

Eugh, eugh and eugh again.

Who the fuck would pay to go and watch such toss anyway? Apart from a few select nutjobs. It sounds revolting. Agree with the poster that said that mainstreaming this kind of behaviour validates it as "acceptable"

Eugh.

There have been films about the holocaust that have depicted the rape and murder. Absolutely.

This film has chosen to be as sickening as possible for a reason. Whether that reason is purely for entertainment or whether it is a more difficult film with allegorical merit I DO NOT KNOW.

I suppose you condemn Ingmar Bergman too.

Believe me, this film is not titillating (according to said friend)

Dittany I am going to ask for your post to be removed. How dare you try to insinuate you want to see that. I have told you I do not. You are absolutely incapable of having a reasoned argument.

The horrors and despair experienced in countries during conflict have been depicted in the past and will continue to be done so with grace,sensibilty and respect...this was not the case with this film..its was a sick depiction of depravity masquerading as ART..any excuse to cut up women and rape kids eh?...

Countless, Dittany.

There is a children's book called Terrible Things -- just off the top of my head.

(I studied Russian literature at Oxford. I know what an allegory is)

I think you are absolutely beneath debate actually.

I think anyone artists, filmmakers, the public, journalists, academics has every right to express his or her revulsion, guilt, fear, complicity regarding terrible events in any way they can, as long as it it not against the law. Allegory is a traditional, sometimes particularly powerful way of doing this. Whether or not a given work contains merit is another argument.

"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."

It will have an 18 certificate and the synopsis is freely available online, as we've all discovered - to our detriment I feel. If someone is the type to be affected by particularly brutal films then surely they should be aware that a horror film (torture porn genre) isn't suitable for them?

If banning it meant that it was never made in the first place thne I'd agree wholeheartedly. But it wont, it will give the film the attention it's creators want.

You started slinging personal insults at me when I was trying to have a debate dittany. I did not insult you in any way. Just fuck off.

I love horror films the more gory the better usually. DP thinks I'm slightly deranged.

I just read the details of the film on Wiki, it has bought me to tears and I feel sick to my stomach!

I couldn't ever, ever imagine why someone would watch such a disgusting film. For art?...Fuck off!!

It is sick, pure and simple, no reason will ever be good enough for me and if a friend ever says they have watched it, then they wont be my friend anymore.

Could not read the synopsis beyond newborn porn.
Allegory my backside.