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‘Dragon Tattoo’ Shows Too Much Skin for IndiaPosted on Jan 30, 2012
India may be the world’s biggest democracy, but it has a little something to learn about free expression. Film censors have banned the Hollywood version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” because of three sexual and/or violent scenes. Director David Fincher refused to cut the offending sequences and Sony Pictures respected his decision. Fincher’s version, which was released in December, is the second film adaptation of the Stieg Larsson book, originally titled “Men Who Hate Women.” For more on this story, head over to the Wrap. Advertisement Previous item: H&M Denies Plagiarizing Artist Next item: How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
By Tony Mitra, February 2 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment
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Well,
I dont know why such information should even deserve being listed here. This is completely irrelevant. Who cares what the filk sensor board of any country does about anything?
India has its own problems and will have to deal with it themselves.
USA of today is no more the same country it was fifty years ago, and promotes a crappy unsustainable urban culture devoid of any moral values, devoid of anything that the viewer can learn or benefit from, other than being hooked on absurdities.
I mean, when did Hollywood or indeed the west last make pictures like “To Kill A Mockingbird” or “Doctor Zivago”, or something else as humane and heart warming? When ?
Report thisBy William, February 2 at 8:24 am Link to this comment
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Here we go again, pushing our dicey Western morality onto other cultures (I’m talking about articles like this one). That hasn’t been working too well for us, has it?
Sexuality is one thing, but mixed with violence—which is an envelope that media has been pushing ever since 9/11 and is everywhere now—is a moral line in the sand for some. I read two of the three books in the series, and the sexual and violence aspects seemed to me to be weirdly perverted, and I’m a very liberal reader. This is a movie I’m not going to see.
Report thisBy mrfreeze, January 31 at 7:27 am Link to this comment
Who gives a shit what Hollywood films the Indians like or don’t like? They have their own film industry and hardly need our garbage.
Report thisBy MeHere, January 30 at 1:08 pm Link to this comment
India is “the world’s biggest democracy” for the 1% and some in the upper middle-class. Film censorship is a small item compared to the problems which afflict most people in the non-privileged sector. In a rigged system, freedom of expression is a very relative term because the only way to access power is if one is corrupt.
Report thisBy GoyToy, January 30 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
After giving the world the Kamasutra, India is now being prudish. Or maybe it’s just hypocrisy.
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