1) a woman throws a baby in a toilet bowl.
2) a man has sex with a woman when her mother lying next to her in same bed.
I think this scenes are not necessary for the film and very disturbing.
So my first advice to you is to not put such scenes in the movies that you make.
My second advice is that you leave other people's choices about what is 'necessary' in their movies up to them.
It's funny to me that I thought, when reading your headline, "There we go. I can pretty much get behind the stylings of the whole movie with the exception of those really disturbing, hard-to-watch scenes. Let's see where this thread goes."
But then I read your two instances, and they're really the least "disturbing" to me. Terrible, tragic, yes. But disturbing? You didn't think showing the palm burning on the candle for so long was more disturbing? Or stabbing herself all over with a sewing needle?
Though integral, those scenes at the time felt a tad bit unnecessary, much like showing the crack in the indian's bum in 'Wayne's World 2'.
I'm surprised people are shocked about the woman throwing the baby away. Nobody on the thread has mentioned that there was no birth control then, that people were starving, that women were sometimes pregnant 100% of the time until death in childbirth or menopause. In these circumstances, with no abortion, babies would be born and abandoned or worse.
It still happens today in fewer numbers. Abandoned babies are still found in rubbish bins, or on hospital steps. 10,000 per year in China alone.
This movie was pornography for psychopaths.
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