| Author | Message | ||
     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
From the consumer advice (on the BBFC's web site) about Il Grido: "Contains moderate domestic violence, suicide and smoking." Are these in order of priority, do we think? | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 145.229.156.40 |
WHAT?!?! They're warning that films contain scenes of smoking now? We've gone beyond the nanny state into some gibbering netherworld in which the concept of adult responsibility for their own actions has never been heard of. The slippery slope to the thought (and activity) police has become an avalanche! | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Il Grido also includes material that requires interpretation. Warning: the members of the audience may have to think for themselves. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
Weirdly, I think the body's occasional warnings of this nature come across as a Twitter tongue in cheek review and could well be taken as recomendations. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.80.120 |
It's crazy to judge a film from 1957 with today's sensitivities. However, I don't see anything wrong with citing smoking as a reason to deny a modern film, for example, a U certificate. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.247 |
Apparently some old Bogart films are now 18s or so because of the fags. Don't... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Don't worry, Tony (or anyone) - this was urged by an anti-smoking group, but the BBFC was having none of it. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.196.92 |
Glad to hear that! | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
Thank heavens for that!! I really thought the world had teetered over the brink of sanity there... |