Saturday, July 12, 2008

Art Imitating Life

The cinema is one barometer for measuring society's views on acceptable behavior.
Britain's changing perception of acceptable behaviour could be charted by what was cut between 1898, when complaints by cheese magnates ensured the withdrawal of a pioneering film showing bacteria on a Stilton, and 1967 when full-frontal nudity dinally escaped the censor's scissors in Hugs and Kisses.
The article points out the hypocrisy of allowing depictions of sexual activity on the screen, but not acts of tobacco smoking. I don't advocate the censoring of either, but if one has to make a choice, I'd ban the one that causes cancer and death, not the one that causes joy and life.

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