I am speaking up in extreme displeasure
of cenorship in Singapore. Recently, I bought a video VCD of my
favourite movie ,
THE ICE STORM. To my horror, I realise that
they cut off the most significant portions in the film that are
crucial to the whole theme of the movie which is sexuality in the
70s America. I understand the need to cut off
explict sex scenes in movies, but the scenes
that were cut off merely suggested sex, infact there were no actual
scenes that exposed flesh explicitly! I know the need to
cut most sex SUGESSTIVE scenes( mind you not even the real thing)
at the movies, but to cut in VCD that i paid a good whole 20 bucks
for is totally ridiculous. I am also speaking up on the part of the
poor director, whose painstaking careful work at directing and
cinematography has been happily snipped away with a big pair of
scissors by our dearest liberal censorhip board. I shudder at the
thought of the producers of this brilliant movie having to watch
this censored version, which i'm sure will evoke much pain to this
insensitvity.
I speak on the part of the producer's artwork that can be compared
to cuting away a portion of painting of an artist.They have no
right to do this!
I admit to having a prirated version of THE ICE STORM prior to
getting the censored one.
( i got it not because it was cheap but beacause I am considered to
be a immature juvenile in my country to watch the show because age
is a number.) However as I decided to justify this brilliant show
by getting the real copy, horrors are revealed.
I now put down my verdict:
I would rather go the distance to buy an pirated version of THE
FULL UNCUT FILM
than buy a real copy of A CENSORED FILM
I know that there are others that will not
agree with me on this as there are many other points to consider
such as undesirable
influence to kids,parents, perverts blah blah
blah but I appciate anyone who stops to read my monologue and 2
cents worth on this.
Thank you.