New film accused of violating child porn laws

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 5-6-05 | unknown

[wideawake]

True - but it definitely played up the "social justice" angle, and it was pretty experimental for its time in setting and cinematography.

[Borges]

Well you have to go to film school somewhere! :-) You could say that anyone in America who does is a product of the 'Hollywood culture' (whatever that is) And actors are actors. I meant he produces his films independently. I don't see a Big Studio wanting anything to do with this.

As for Ozu, I've only seen 'Tokyo Story' and both versions of Floating Weeds. All great. I want to check out the silent films like 'I was Born But...'

[Sans-Culotte]

I've seen "Gospel According to St Matthew", and it's over-rated to me. It's sort of like watching a Passion Play, rather than a real movie. It plays to me like a group of costumed people dropped off on location. The actors were amateur locals. The guy who plays Jesus really races through his lines in rapid-fire fashion, as if he was told he had a time limit to his speeches.

I believe it was filmed in the same area as Gibson's "Passion". It probably was so acclaimed because it was filmed in a more gritty style than the usual Hollywood epics with their hosanna-ing scores and studio sets in those days. It's worth seeing once for a few good moments, but is not a keeper IMO.

[wideawake]

I hear great things about Green Tea Over Rice.

It continues to enrage me that you can buy the key works of almost any obscure author you could care to name in paperback at cheap Amazon prices - yet there are plenty of great directors who essential films are either totally unavailable on DVD or are prohibitively expensive.

[Borges]

Good points. The whole Neo Realism thing was about forsaking Hollywood artifice (mostly out of economic necessity) Ebert wrote a good review of it...

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040314/REVIEWS08/403140301/1023

[Borges]

Lots of older obscure authors are in Public Domain whereas very few films are yet. Criterion is doing great work in that sphere. It's better now then it was 10 or 15 years ago. And it's only getting better.

[Modernman]

Baehr said the movie contains graphic scenes of homosexual prostitution and homosexual rape, scenes of a homosexual pedophile seducing a young boy and a graphic description of the homosexual abuse of two little boys.

I don't see anything in here that would violate child pornography laws.

[sandbar]

This is an excuse to have a 'legal' form of child porn.

[karnage]

Jesus in "Gospel" was portrayed kinda fruity IMHO.

[Spok]

"graphic scenes of homosexual prostitution and homosexual rape"

It also violates the unwritten law of political correctness by showing homosexuality in a bad light.

[RightWingAtheist]

I have very little respect for Baehr as a critic, but even less for Araki as a direcotr. The Doom Generation is one of the most painfully bad movies I have ever sat through.

[Borges]

But if it wasn't for Baehr, how I would I know which films have 'Humanist' elements in them? /sarcasm

[Stone Mountain]

Has anybody here criticizing the film actually seen it? There are a lot of ways the camera can fool the eye - I'd like a little more evidence that these children were molested than the outrage of one film critic who has a problem with the movie.

[righttackle44]

"The director is an angry, militant homosexual."

Are there any other kind, except for Liberace?

[Modernman]

I'd like a little more evidence that these children were molested

Nowhere in the review does this guy even make the claim that the children involved were molested. There's a lot of sleight-of-hand going on in this article. The descriptions of the sexual conduct in the article do not seem to violate any child pornography laws, IMO.

[AD from SpringBay]

...scenes of a homosexual pedophile seducing a young boy...

Now there's a great lie - young boy's can't be seduced, no matter how seductive the queer may feel - their own "power trip", in spite of the sodomistic self-loathing and self-destructive life. It's not seduction, it's rape.

[Stone Mountain]

Good point - he could have been more specific about what he meant when he said "This film clearly violates the child pornography statutes written by Congress and most state legislatures."

[Borges]

This is the same Ted Baehr who called 'Shakespeare in Love' one of the worst films of the year for its 'immorality'.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Super duper nausea alert. Interesting, this movie apparently shows the truth - that many homosexuals were molested as children and adolescents, which then twisted them to become homosexual themselves.

But it sounds as though this movie is using the story line to be a vehicle for "gay" child porn.

I hope to God they shut the crap down.

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[tutstar]

disgusting ping