13 Most Controversial Movie Moments Of 2017

6. The Vagina Tracker - Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Kingsman The Golden Circle Tracker
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The Moment: In order to continue his investigations into The Golden Circle, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) has to plant a tracking device on Clara Von Gluckfberg (Poppy Delevingne), and because the tracker must be implanted on a mucus membrane, he opts to "deliver" it inside Gluckfberg by putting his hand down her pants, complete with a close-up CGI glimpse of the tracker landing inside her vagina.

Why It's Controversial: This basically comes down to consent. Gluckfberg did obviously consent to sexual relations with Eggsy, but she sure didn't consent to having a tracker placed inside her body, causing some to accuse the filmmakers of perpetuating and making light of rape culture.

Director Matthew Vaughn has defended the scene as wilfully pushing the envelope and provoking audiences, but ultimately it comes down to whether or not viewers found the scene amusing enough to mitigate its grossness (which many didn't, it seems).

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