Is it illegal to watch these films?

[Admarlow.]

I was reading this list of the 10 most shocking films, and it got me thinking if any happen to be banned in the UK and you watch one online can you be prosecuted?
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.BTW itb doesn't matter to the question but I will not be watching any of them , and I urge you to do the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://blogs.ign.com/...ain/2006/06/29/23243/

[snags]

I own 'Irreversible' on DVD... freely available for sale on the Tartan Extreme label I think. I bought it off ebay... I bought it as I like the lead actor, Frenchman Vincent Cassel. The film is uncomfortable to watch and I didn't find any entertainment value in it. I think the DVD is in a box in a cupboard somewhere never to be viewed again...

[Admarlow.]

ok what about the ones that are not available in the UK on DVD?

[bibblebub]

I've got 2 of those on commercially distributed DVDs:-

Salo - don't believe the hype

Ichi The Killer - is cartoon violence

I think I bought them both at HMV (Ichi was certainly in the shops, and I got Salo online).

[trt]

How are you supposed to watch them?

[jno]

I've seen Salo and I'm still unscarred. Irreversible's highly thought of but doesn't sound quite my cup of acid.

[Quizmonkey]

They're fictional films: ie. dramatised action. How can you be prosecuted? No-one has to watch them if they don't want to so I don't see a problem. The original blog that listed them is way way over the top, anyway. For example, Salo is widely recognised as a classic masterpiece - it's Pasolini, for god's sake!

[Admarlow.]

ok but some of them depict child rape in graphic detail, for instance.If it looks real isn't it as bad to watch it as the real thing???

[jno]

no, people know when they're watching fiction and make allowances, though with a particularly engrossing film they may get sucked into the action and find themselves treating it as if it was 'real'. But generally people know the difference.

[Admarlow.]

dont get me wrong is against censorship and love a good horror, I just don't believe that something like Augustus Underground's Mordum is actually legal to watch!

[bibblebub]

How do you know that the person whose blog that is isn't working for a production company or distributor trying to promote some of those films?

One of the simplest ways to get publicity for some low-budget film would be to describe it as "the sickest film ever", or words to that effect, and guess what? It then becomes viral marketing through people posting about it on numerous sites.

[Admarlow.]

do an internet search on the number 1 film and you will see what I mean....

[bibblebub]

If these films so disgust you that you feel the need to exhort other people not to watch them, why have you googled it? Wouldn't you just look at the list out of curiosity (maybe) and that would be it?

[joggerjayne]

"a man is placed in a pressure chamber until his intestines blow out of his anus"

(Men Behind the Sun)

Why would that happen? If he was in a pressure chamber, the pressure outside his body would press things back inside him ... not blow them out !

Okay, so technically ... the pressure entering his body would be equal to the pressure outside in the chamber, and so there would be no excess force going either way.

=0/

[Admarlow.]

because like you ,bibblebub I thought the artical might be an over exageration, why do you ask?

[jno]

jj, does that mean if you sit in a pressure chamber absolutely nothing happens?

Not a lot of use then, are they?

[ummmm]

Can you not get into it Vibes?

It's long...do you want me to email it?

[joggerjayne]

jno ...

I suppose you would be crushed, ultimately.

The soft organs would be crushed first, but I don't see how anything could pop out of your bum, given the pressure pushing into your bum.

[snags]

''Why would that happen?''

In this context, does it really matter? The idea is to shock... I doubt correct physical anatomical response was important...