Posted on 01/19/2007 5:32:00 AM PST by IrishMike
RAPE AND TORTURE RULE AT THE MOST SHOCKING FILM FESTIVAL EVER. SAMUEL L. Jackson chains a half-naked Christina Ricci to a radiator, a 12-year-old Dakota Fanning gets raped, Catherine Keener uses Ellen Page as a human ashtray, and worse - much worse.
Yep, it's time for the Sundance Film Festival, which opens tonight with Robert Redford's celebration of indieworld serving an even greater than usual quota of tabloid-worthy shocking sex and human misery amid the snow and the swag emporiums of Park City, Utah.
"Black Snake Moan," the Jackson-Ricci movie, has been generating buzz for months prior to its premiere, thanks to a pulpy poster depicting Ricci's bondage - and an even more lurid trailer of her trying to escape in chains, a cutoff T-shirt and panties.
Jackson plays a former bluesman whose wife has left him for his brother. One morning, he discovers the slutty Ricci beaten and dumped outside his Southern farm after a wild night of partying - and he sets out to cure her of her promiscuity with some very tough Christian love before her boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) returns from a National Guard stint.
" 'Black Snake Moan' is really about two very different people coming to heal each other," says writer-director Craig Brewer, whose "Hustle & Flow" created a sensation at Sundance '05.
Brewer's film will open next month, but a distributor is still being sought for what may well turn out to be an even bigger hot potato - "Hounddog," which has been notorious since word leaked out that Fanning had filmed a rape scene for the movie.
Set in Alabama of the late 1950s, "Hounddog" features the star of "Charlotte's Web" as an Elvis-obsessed singer who is ravaged by an older boy who entices her with tickets to see the King in concert.
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I just read in "Human Events" that over 50% of 13-year-old girls in Afghanistan are married. Moslems don't give a hoot in heck about child-rape. Dakota Fanning is a lot older than Mohammed's wife Aisha.
I certainly don't want to be put in the position of defending muslims, but there's a big difference between child brides (which weren't that uncommon here in the US until relatively recently - in fact I believe that several states still allow 14 year olds to marry)and films about chaining young girls to radiators and using teenagers as human ash trays. These type of films and the like coming out of Hollywood only feed into the muslim's claims that our society is corrupt and Godless.
None of this means the muslims are any better, but we are supposed to be the better society.
The principles of right and wrong are written on the human heart, including the first principle of ethics, which is that the good is to be done and evil avoided.
The natural law (which roughly corresponds to the Ten Commandments), is also written on the human heart, and is evidenced by its universal recognition by various societies throughout history. The determination of right and wrong in particular circumstances can become a complex process, but the underlying principles in moral calculations are simple.
Evil.
Especially now, criticizing Christians is cowardly.
Does some film at Sundance criticize Islam or Muslims?
I did, except with the idea that anyone has an absolute right to do evil, even if such acts are permitted by law. Regardless, no one enjoys even a constitutional right to produce porn.
Not in the Islamic world, unfortunately.
I dont seem to recall ever saying that.
I agree that the films are degrading. However, my point was that the treatment of young girls in Islam is also degrading. At least Dakota Fanning is merely acting. A girl her age in Pakistan or Afghanistan is likely to be married to a man two or three times her age, a first cousin or uncle (so she gets to have babies with birth defects, yippee!) and has no hope of escape.
Therefore, on this point at least, Moslems have no room to judge our sociey, in my opinion.
That's what porn (some of these films) is.
The natural law (which roughly corresponds to the Ten Commandments), is also written on the human heart...
Uh no, other cultures have entirely different standards of behavior, most of which relate directly to environment.
Half-nekkid Ricci ? Looks like she's wearing clothes to me !
don't hold your breath
A horror story made even more frightening because it's true.
Ellen Page, the young Canadian actress whose character castrated a child molester in the jaw-dropping "Hard Candy" (Sundance '05), gets turned into a human ashtray by Catherine Keener in "An American Crime," another envelope pusher at this year's festival.
Tommy O'Haver's film is based on a 1965 Indiana murder case that shocked the nation. Keener's single mother of six took in two teenage boarders - and tied up one of them, played by Page, in the basement.
All manner of abuses are visited upon the teenager by this frightening woman, her children and their friends - as the victim's sister, who has polio, watches in horror. The injuries include multiple cigarette burns, scalding baths and violation with a soda bottle.
"As a mother, I said to myself, 'I can't do this,'" Keener recently told an interviewer. "Later, I thought, 'I'm a mother. I think I kind of should.'"
Jeanine Pirro was on Hannity and Colmes last night and said she saw the entire film and nothing in it remotely approaches child pornagraphy.
Well, then the film doesn't live up to the hype (surprise), because the way they are describing it sure sounds like brutal kiddie porn to me...
1) The version Pirro saw had been edited.
2)If a kiddie porn producer were to shoot the exact same scene, using a minor whose parent/s had consented to the filming, would the kiddie porn producer be arrested?
If the answer of yes, then so should the people responsible for Fanning's film.
Ha, excellent.
Oh wait you were reffering to Sundance films. My bad. There's usually good dollop of shock value there mostly trying to get Hollywood's attention.
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