Re: Blue Story
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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Except that they banned "a clockwork orange" for similar reasons. I don't pretend to understand gang culture but if this move saves lives or protects people from violence then it's ok by me. Maybe in twenty years they can show it and there will be no reaction as per the original "copycat" film.
Has anyone here watched "a clockwork orange" btw? It's no longer banned.
I love A Clockwork Orange, Annie. It's a great film and even better book. Brilliant direction from Stanley Kubrick and acting from the always-underrated Malcolm McDowell.
Yes, it's violent, but then don't go see it and for it's time shone out as a worrying trendsetter with people dressing up in boiler suits with sword-sticks. But like anything, teenagers will always want to copy a trend won't they and this new one is setting a similar example.
Not my thing anyway so I wouldn't see it, but it's certainly wrong to have people fighting in a cinema. I love Quentin Tarantino's films because they are original and very well made but it's only the minority who would copy that sort of violence and to be honest, these people have something wrong with them to begin with.
But where do you stop with these bans? Silly inoffensive words and town name places being banned all because of snowflakes and this pathetic new generation we are seeing at the moment.
Should we ban Eastenders or Corrie then because of their subject matters?