Manhunt 2: The BBFC loses
Good to see that the Video Appeals Committee has overturned the censorship of Manhunt 2.
Even better would be to just scrap the BBFC. They are a blight on freedom and creativity. You want to sell a DVD, something at the same level of Care Bears or Teletubbies? You have to pay them a fee of £75 plus £6/minute to review what you’ve created. They have made decisions on the most arbitrary level at the whim of the director, for example, James Ferman’s obsession with the display of nunchuks (Enter the Dragon was resubmitted soon after his departure, and the nunchuk scene restored). They have banned DVDs that have later been allowed, shown not to cause the end of society, and in a few cases (True Romance and Reservoir Dogs), viewed as classics.
As a base of reforming it, we should have a simple rule: adults can see anything that was produced legally. Do these people really think that we can’t tell the difference between Manhunt 2 and reality?
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