Monday, 21 March 2011

Cinema verite

More fun from the BBFC classifications intended to aid unwary adults who might shirk from the unexpected or be unwittingly offended on a visit to the cinema.  This time the  BBFC guidance coyly warns that the film 'contains a discrete sex scene'.  What larks!  What might 'an indiscrete sex scene' look like, I wonder?  And how exactly do you have sex 'discretely'?  With the lights off,  beneath the bedclothes, fully clothed perhaps?  Slightly tricky that last one I would have thought. But I'm trying to imagine a filmgoer being caught unawares by something that appears on the big screen. 'These people are making love, discretely, but nonetheless copulating in Widescreen Dolby Surround Sound.  Outrageous!  This would never happen in real life.  So much for cinema bloody verite.'  I would love to read the BBFC guidelines that allow the censors to differentiate between 'a sex scene' and  'a discrete sex scene'.  Or between 'sex' and 'strong sex'.  Great phrase that - strong sex.  As opposed to what?  Slightly flimsy sex?  Half-hearted but well-intentioned sex?  These people need to get out more.

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