Degrading and humiliating


Are there no rules or laws governing the protection of children in Chinese cinema? Probably not, since the young lead actor was repeatedly humiliated and degraded throughout this entire movie. Shown not once but twice urinating in full frontal nudity, could they not have filmed him from the rear, or from the waist up? We would still have known he was peeing. In another nude scene, he has to suffer the indignity of two (fully dressed) little girls giggling at the sight of his genitals. This movie could never have been made in the West, thanks to our stricter censorship.

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There wouldn't be many western countries that have stricter censorship overall than China. Not that that's a competition anyone should be proud of winning.

But I'd say you're correct that such a film would not be made in, at least, the anglophone countries, where everyone knows for a fact that bare skin, genitalia and the excretory system are all evil.
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I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.

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humiliated? errr, he was acting for christ sake and it's not real life. Seriously some people really need to get a grip. It's a young boy taking a piss ffs. How is it humiliating or degrading for a child of that age to show his private parts on camera? Get over it.

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I think this is where political corectness goes way too far. Instead of thinking about what the movie is actually trying to say, you think about pointless things. The little actors here were not abused, not humiliated. Thanks to our 'strict censorships' we get a fair amount of films that are showing a sort of idealised world that never existed, just in case it might offend someone like you who likes everything to be aesthetically pleasing :/

The movie is about hos humiliating and degradating communism is, and you needed this sort of scenes to get through to the audience.

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Not political correctness, just cultural ignorance.
PC is something else entirely, and it's got nothing to do with the feelings of ONE person. How can it be PC gone "way too far", when it's only one idiot saying it?
I'd explain to you what the term actually means, but you'd profit from finding out yourself.

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