The need for censors. Deeply disturbing and not in a good way. Highly questionable violence.
Both I and my partner found the ridiculous script writing and the portrayal of violence in this film deeply disturbing and wonder what on earth is going on at the British Board of Film Censors in the UK.
Warning: It kind of contains spoilers though I promise to be as vague as possible when referencing characters to try and avoid giving the plot away.
Last night I watched a double bill screening of both Scream V and VI at my local cinema in Bexleyheath. In the run-up to watching the double bill both me and my partner watched at home Scream I to IV. Twenty-five years ago Scream, though ultra-violent self-referential dialogue came across as fresh and original, and like the Terminator and Alien franchises, having strong female leads leading the franchise front and center was positive even though John Carpenter with Halloween 1978 was the real game changer in horror nearly two decades earlier, closely followed by Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979, sadly with Scream VI not much has changed. After the loss of the franchise helmer the legendary director Wes Craven in 2015 his legacy simply now continues to be diluted especially with this latest offering. Why? The world has moved on since 1996 when Scream was first released. Knife crime in the UK has exploded over the last few years and a film that contains so many knife stabbings should therefore be looked at, yes, and even censored more vigorously. It's not the dozens of brutal stabbings within the movie that I'm calling out, it's the comic book writing in that several characters are repeatedly brutally stabbed and then quickly are shown to be completely recovered, then to be stabbed once again to then once again withing hours recover. One character is repeatedly stabbed in the stomach by two knife-welding assailants, which seemed like ten times by each attacker, and left for dead bleeding out on the floor as the action races on towards the final climax scene. This character is then seen alive being wheeled out on a trolley, met by another, also who was shown to be viciously gut stabbed twice in scenes just before now shown walking up unassisted, miraculously cured.
Personally, I challenged the then UK censors with an argument within a film questioning why comical unrealistic violence was then OK whilst repulsive realistic violence at the time was being heavily censored. I thought that the censors were now fully committed to the portrayal of realistic violence in film so that the abhorrent reality was clearly repulsive to any normal viewer. Now it seems that UK Censors have taken a massive step backward. This is a problem for both cinema and therefore society, knife crime is escalating exponentially here in the UK, this film is going to exacerbate the problem like pouring petrol on a fire. Violence needs to be portrayed realistically, responsibly, and honestly, here violence is simply used as a cheap exploitative tool to entertain on the basest level, both dangerous and highly irresponsible.
BRAdY.
Both I and my partner found the ridiculous script writing and the portrayal of violence in this film deeply disturbing and wonder what on earth is going on at the British Board of Film Censors in the UK.
Warning: It kind of contains spoilers though I promise to be as vague as possible when referencing characters to try and avoid giving the plot away.
Last night I watched a double bill screening of both Scream V and VI at my local cinema in Bexleyheath. In the run-up to watching the double bill both me and my partner watched at home Scream I to IV. Twenty-five years ago Scream, though ultra-violent self-referential dialogue came across as fresh and original, and like the Terminator and Alien franchises, having strong female leads leading the franchise front and center was positive even though John Carpenter with Halloween 1978 was the real game changer in horror nearly two decades earlier, closely followed by Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979, sadly with Scream VI not much has changed. After the loss of the franchise helmer the legendary director Wes Craven in 2015 his legacy simply now continues to be diluted especially with this latest offering. Why? The world has moved on since 1996 when Scream was first released. Knife crime in the UK has exploded over the last few years and a film that contains so many knife stabbings should therefore be looked at, yes, and even censored more vigorously. It's not the dozens of brutal stabbings within the movie that I'm calling out, it's the comic book writing in that several characters are repeatedly brutally stabbed and then quickly are shown to be completely recovered, then to be stabbed once again to then once again withing hours recover. One character is repeatedly stabbed in the stomach by two knife-welding assailants, which seemed like ten times by each attacker, and left for dead bleeding out on the floor as the action races on towards the final climax scene. This character is then seen alive being wheeled out on a trolley, met by another, also who was shown to be viciously gut stabbed twice in scenes just before now shown walking up unassisted, miraculously cured.
Personally, I challenged the then UK censors with an argument within a film questioning why comical unrealistic violence was then OK whilst repulsive realistic violence at the time was being heavily censored. I thought that the censors were now fully committed to the portrayal of realistic violence in film so that the abhorrent reality was clearly repulsive to any normal viewer. Now it seems that UK Censors have taken a massive step backward. This is a problem for both cinema and therefore society, knife crime is escalating exponentially here in the UK, this film is going to exacerbate the problem like pouring petrol on a fire. Violence needs to be portrayed realistically, responsibly, and honestly, here violence is simply used as a cheap exploitative tool to entertain on the basest level, both dangerous and highly irresponsible.
BRAdY.