(Wonder what they'll do next; how about bringing back the ban on the importation of electric guitars, just like in the hallowed Menzies Era, in case this rock'n'roll thing corrupts the morals of our youth.)
I saw Baise-Moi last week. I'm still not sure whether it's a work raising serious questions or an adolescent tantrum of sensationalist violence (more likely, it's somewhere in between; the question is whether the crux of its difference from all the by-the-numbers post-Tarantino films is in its message or in the fact that they have actual sex in it). I don't think it should be banned though.
Wish they would ban the really insidious shit like "Black Hawk Down" (or practically anything from south of the Canadian border).
But that's *patriotic*. If anything along those lines, they'd put aside their free-market ideology (and we all know how real "free markets" are) to subsidise a local Patriotic Thriller industry to make an all-Australian variant of the Bruckheimer-founded genre .
Oh well, if Crikey is right and we get housing prices falling, the coalition will be out on their arses like the UK Tories. And I'll get to feel smug rather than under-achieving for not having a mortgage.
I didn't see the film myself (wasn't up to watching graphic pornography), but I thought this fellow's comments on IMBd were interesting:
Ksael Agnulraon (ksaelagnulraon@hotmail.com) Adelaide, Australia Date: 3 May 2002 Summary: Not pleasant
However, in a similar genre, I did see the Belgian film "S." and Michael Winterbottom's "Butterfly Kiss" and thought they were quite good (very graphic, sacrilegious but cathartic, in a way). I would not recommend them to the average viewer, though.