Sometimes movies can go too far. Whether that is an explicit sex scene, gratuitous violence or excessive swearing, there are numerous examples of cinema pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with.
Now I’m not here as a moral malcontent, each to their own. This is about those scenes which are like watching a brutal car crash, you know you shouldn’t look but you can’t take your eyes off of it.
A lot of the time, you can just switch the movie off, relax, chill and forget about what you have just witnessed. However occasionally, you’ll come across a scene which sticks by you and haunts your very soul. Until you remember it’s just a movie of course, which is when you generally man up and get on with your life.
The fact still remains that sometimes you can’t help but feel a bit dirty, a bit exposed after a certain type of cinematic moment has passed. To quote the late great Hunter S. Thompson,”The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over”.
Here are ten movies that went over that edge…
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Kind of expected Pulp Fiction to be on here
The gimp scene? Yeah thought about it, but had quite a few rape scenes in there already and figured I should show that that’s not the only thing I watch ;-)
… Wow. The guys behind ‘A Serbian Film’ sure are special little chestnuts, aren’t they? (I checked and it’s banned in my home country, Australia. Um… yay?)
I’d also nominate the infamous ‘go get the butter!’ scene from ‘Last Tango in Paris’. Man, it gave a whole new meaning to the term ‘breakfast spread’.
They’re certainly a couple of shrimps short of a barbie ;-)
missed Human Centipede….
Thought it may have been a bit too obvious
Do a Google image search for “Fionnula Flanagan”. That’s the little old lady from Yes Man. I would no more turn down an offer of “release” from her than I would Helen Mirren.
We’re all going to be at the receiving end of ageist revulsion at some point in our lives, but we’ll still be the sexy people we were when we were young. Get some perspective.
Sorry, I didn’t realise I was posting an article on the Age Concern website
Well, be glad that the scene in MISERY wasn’t done exactly to the book….in the book, she cuts off one of his feet, and then cauterizes the wound with a blowtorch!! The way that Reiner staged it was still gut-wrenching, though.
In comparison the axe makes her seem like a humanitarian. One fell swoop and boom, gone. Blowtorch though, ouch.