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But this time from a different angle.
As I see it, censorship is double standard and very, very suspicious.
Why?
The stance taken over violence in film as opposed to sex in films.
Why is it I can watch Arnie blow away a 3rd world country, yet I cant watch 2 people enjoying each other?
Nobody gets hurt (unless that's your thing), there are no murders, no explosions (well..nah, I wont), no dubious ethnic races used as villians.
Yet, should I so desire, I cannot watch this.
That seems wrong and just a little..disturbing to me.
I don't have the desire to watch a porn movie, grew out of that since The Net and puberty.
But if I do, then I have to trek to Soho and buy "specialist" videos.
Yet if I want to watch people getting shot, stabbed, hung, drowned, burnt I can pop down to (insert video chain here) and rent any number of action movies starring some endomorph with limited acting skills.
Why?
Why is it ok for me to witness murders and carnage, but I can't watch two consensual adults doing what we've all been doing since the dawn of man?
And you can apply that age old argument of movies influencing behaviour, with only positive results.
Imagine the headlines "Today, after watching Danish Dental Nurses 4, a young man imitated what he saw and...well...had a damn good time. Here's the weather."
A nicer, calmer, more relaxed world.
Surely better than braindead savages abducting kids and murdering them because of a movie with a killer doll?
There is no argument that holds up for why I can rent violent movies but I can't rent a skin-flick.
I would rather a child watch a porn film than a violent action thriller.
But that's me, I'm strange like that I suppose.
It just doesn't make sense that, instead of a laid-back and happy population watching these movies and imitating what they see (to no bad effect), we can all go watch The Matrix and think "Cool, Neo machine gunned 35 security guards whilst wearing shades...he's cool".
Don't get me wrong, I like action movies as much as the next man, I just find this double standard pointless and against the arguments people use for cinema influencing.
As far as I can see, the only negative copycat result would be bad perms, wah-wah music and asking everyone "Who's your daddy?"
As I see it, censorship is double standard and very, very suspicious.
Why?
The stance taken over violence in film as opposed to sex in films.
Why is it I can watch Arnie blow away a 3rd world country, yet I cant watch 2 people enjoying each other?
Nobody gets hurt (unless that's your thing), there are no murders, no explosions (well..nah, I wont), no dubious ethnic races used as villians.
Yet, should I so desire, I cannot watch this.
That seems wrong and just a little..disturbing to me.
I don't have the desire to watch a porn movie, grew out of that since The Net and puberty.
But if I do, then I have to trek to Soho and buy "specialist" videos.
Yet if I want to watch people getting shot, stabbed, hung, drowned, burnt I can pop down to (insert video chain here) and rent any number of action movies starring some endomorph with limited acting skills.
Why?
Why is it ok for me to witness murders and carnage, but I can't watch two consensual adults doing what we've all been doing since the dawn of man?
And you can apply that age old argument of movies influencing behaviour, with only positive results.
Imagine the headlines "Today, after watching Danish Dental Nurses 4, a young man imitated what he saw and...well...had a damn good time. Here's the weather."
A nicer, calmer, more relaxed world.
Surely better than braindead savages abducting kids and murdering them because of a movie with a killer doll?
There is no argument that holds up for why I can rent violent movies but I can't rent a skin-flick.
I would rather a child watch a porn film than a violent action thriller.
But that's me, I'm strange like that I suppose.
It just doesn't make sense that, instead of a laid-back and happy population watching these movies and imitating what they see (to no bad effect), we can all go watch The Matrix and think "Cool, Neo machine gunned 35 security guards whilst wearing shades...he's cool".
Don't get me wrong, I like action movies as much as the next man, I just find this double standard pointless and against the arguments people use for cinema influencing.
As far as I can see, the only negative copycat result would be bad perms, wah-wah music and asking everyone "Who's your daddy?"
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But this time from a different angle.
As I see it, censorship is double standard and very, very suspicious.
Why?
The stance taken over violence in film as opposed to sex in films.
Why is it I can watch Arnie blow away a 3rd world country, yet I cant watch 2 people enjoying each other?
Nobody gets hurt (unless that's your thing), there are no murders, no explosions (well..nah, I wont), no dubious ethnic races used as villians.
Yet, should I so desire, I cannot watch this.
That seems wrong and just a little..disturbing to me.
I don't have the desire to watch a porn movie, grew out of that since The Net and puberty.
But if I do, then I have to trek to Soho and buy "specialist" videos.
Yet if I want to watch people getting shot, stabbed, hung, drowned, burnt I can pop down to (insert video chain here) and rent any number of action movies starring some endomorph with limited acting skills.
Why?
Why is it ok for me to witness murders and carnage, but I can't watch two consensual adults doing what we've all been doing since the dawn of man?
And you can apply that age old argument of movies influencing behaviour, with only positive results.
Imagine the headlines "Today, after watching Danish Dental Nurses 4, a young man imitated what he saw and...well...had a damn good time. Here's the weather."
A nicer, calmer, more relaxed world.
Surely better than braindead savages abducting kids and murdering them because of a movie with a killer doll?
There is no argument that holds up for why I can rent violent movies but I can't rent a skin-flick.
I would rather a child watch a porn film than a violent action thriller.
But that's me, I'm strange like that I suppose.
It just doesn't make sense that, instead of a laid-back and happy population watching these movies and imitating what they see (to no bad effect), we can all go watch The Matrix and think "Cool, Neo machine gunned 35 security guards whilst wearing shades...he's cool".
Don't get me wrong, I like action movies as much as the next man, I just find this double standard pointless and against the arguments people use for cinema influencing.
As far as I can see, the only negative copycat result would be bad perms, wah-wah music and asking everyone "Who's your daddy?"
As I see it, censorship is double standard and very, very suspicious.
Why?
The stance taken over violence in film as opposed to sex in films.
Why is it I can watch Arnie blow away a 3rd world country, yet I cant watch 2 people enjoying each other?
Nobody gets hurt (unless that's your thing), there are no murders, no explosions (well..nah, I wont), no dubious ethnic races used as villians.
Yet, should I so desire, I cannot watch this.
That seems wrong and just a little..disturbing to me.
I don't have the desire to watch a porn movie, grew out of that since The Net and puberty.
But if I do, then I have to trek to Soho and buy "specialist" videos.
Yet if I want to watch people getting shot, stabbed, hung, drowned, burnt I can pop down to (insert video chain here) and rent any number of action movies starring some endomorph with limited acting skills.
Why?
Why is it ok for me to witness murders and carnage, but I can't watch two consensual adults doing what we've all been doing since the dawn of man?
And you can apply that age old argument of movies influencing behaviour, with only positive results.
Imagine the headlines "Today, after watching Danish Dental Nurses 4, a young man imitated what he saw and...well...had a damn good time. Here's the weather."
A nicer, calmer, more relaxed world.
Surely better than braindead savages abducting kids and murdering them because of a movie with a killer doll?
There is no argument that holds up for why I can rent violent movies but I can't rent a skin-flick.
I would rather a child watch a porn film than a violent action thriller.
But that's me, I'm strange like that I suppose.
It just doesn't make sense that, instead of a laid-back and happy population watching these movies and imitating what they see (to no bad effect), we can all go watch The Matrix and think "Cool, Neo machine gunned 35 security guards whilst wearing shades...he's cool".
Don't get me wrong, I like action movies as much as the next man, I just find this double standard pointless and against the arguments people use for cinema influencing.
As far as I can see, the only negative copycat result would be bad perms, wah-wah music and asking everyone "Who's your daddy?"
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