All it has to do is “insult” Islam
“What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?”
Easy. Make it critical of muslims.
True.
Very true.
These movie people pride themselves on pushing the envelope.
Can the liberal/libertarian/artistic freedom crowd at least acknowledge that a movie like this would not have been allowed years ago? And that the standards keep changing, and going in the direction of more explicit displays?
In 1969, the movie “Midnight Cowboy” got an “X” rating. It would probably be rated PG-13 today. There was nothing explicit in that movie. There was a lot of bad language, and a sympathetic portrayal of a motorcycle bum type character. By today’s standards, that movie wouldn’t have caused controversy. But by the standards of the day, it was considered bad enough to get that X rating. X was not necessarily supposed to be explicit nudity or sex, it was supposed to be anything not suitable for children.
And as this article points out, the whole concept of movie ratings is dissolving in the age of the DVD. Yes many children will see this in their homes when it comes out on DVD. That’s a whole other debate, about how to shield kids from all this stuff that is produced ine name of “artistic freedom”.