"The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers."
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/198682/gruesome-film-banned-from-the-uk.html
I don't have to see it to know I'm not interested.
Er, I didn't actually say you/people with your view weren't interested. I'm not interested in it either, but I'm not condemning it without seeing it which was my point. :hatsoff:
What I find odd about censorship bodies like the BBFC is that the reason for them banning films is that they may cause harm to potential viewers & yet these censors have seen more obscene movies than anyone else. Are they not damaged by it? No it's just this invisible audience they are 'protecting'. :anonymous
There's a difference.
The people who protested Life of Brian knew absolutely nothing about the film before they saw it whereas in this day and age of the internet, you can know a lot about a film before seeing it.
True but knowing a lot about the film is different to seeing it. Reading a description of it is very different to how it is shown on screen, direction, editing, acting, use of music etc all play a part. I'm not saying Human Centipede 2 has artistic merit but a film cannot be judged on written descriptions of its scenes, its a film not a novel!
