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Originally Posted by RawAlex
There was a line that was crossed in this case, sadly hard to define, but it had to do a bunch with the intent.
My personal example is the first Death Wish movie. In that movie, the mother and daugher are followed home, the mother killed after she is forced to watch her daughter be violently raped and left for dead as well. It is an integral part of the story, and the scene was (especially for the times) very graphic and rather disturbing.
However, and this is important: It was part of a greater whole, the movie didn't dwell on the rape. It wasn't a 2 hour movie with 90 minutes of rape of 30 minutes of seeking revenge, but rather a transient (about 2 minutes total) part of a 2 hour movie. They didn't show gyno shots, they didn't show her bleeding pubis, they didn't show the perp's cum dribbling out of her bleeding ass... they didn't discuss it in detail, they didn't have to - it wasn't important, it wasn't the object of the story, and it wasn't needed.
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What a really great example....let's see now....rape bad...Ok. Anal rape bad...Ok. Torture and rape bad...Ok
So, then, you are saying the rest of the movie, where he hunts down and kills everyone else was good? Is that your example?
Yea....I'm not sure promoting "killing" is a good way to talk about this "as a whole."
But then again, I've got a real problem with most censorship. I don't like what she did, didn't like her website, and wouldn't get out of my chair to defend it.
But I worry it sets a dangerous precedent.
It's a WHOLE LOT EASIER now to find "other words" obscene. THAT'S the part that worries me.
When they outlawed machine guns, nobody was really concerned. Then they slowly worked down the list, bit by bit......and they are still working on it.
America always over reacts to everything. And children? Forget about it.