why there isn't more outrage over the BBFC's banning of the Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence). you probably weren't planning to rush out and buy a DVD of this movie, which tells the lovely story of a bloke who stitches 12 people together to create the eponymous beast while pleasuring himself with sandpaper and barbed wire. But you should nonetheless be angry at the BBFC's blanket ban on the film, its unilateral removal of our right to decide for ourselves whether to watch it or to snub it. Because it sums up brilliantly the tyrannical elitism of censorship and the BBFC's treatment of the public as potential perverts who are only one sick movie away from going completely mental.
The Human Centipede 2: The Reason of Banned
The BBFC justified its ban on the basis that The Human Centipede 2 film, with its scenes of "graphic sexual violence", poses a "real risk" of causing "harm" to potential viewers. Apparently the film could "deprave or corrupt a significant proportion of those likely to see [it]". Which immediately raises a question in my mind: why did it not warp the minds and morality of the men and women at the BBFC who, poor souls that they are, had to sit through it? Are they now depraved? Have they been corrupted? Why not? What is so special about them which means that they are capable of watching the two-hour-long fictional creation of a sexual monster without going doolally, whereas the general public – you and I – apparently are not?
This captures the elitism of the BBFC, and of the bossy, self-appointed censoring class in general, which clearly considers itself morally superior, possessed of a stronger stomach and a clearer mind, than the ordinary man in the street. Normally such elitism is well disguised, hidden behind claims that censorship must be enforced to "protect the children" or to "preserve national security". But here, in the unfettered blacklisting of a film that might deprave and corrupt "even adults", in the words of the BBFC, we can see the snobbish authoritarianism of Britain's chief censors in all its unglory. The message of their ban is: We, the incorruptible few, have a duty to protect you, the corruptible mass, from your worst, most depraved instincts.
The elitism of the BBFC is also revealed in the fact that it is more likely to pass sexually violent movies if they are aimed at arthouse audiences (nice people) rather than the average Joe (frightfully unpredictable weirdos). So in 2009 it granted a cinema release to Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, which also features wacky sexual degradation. (I won't go into detail, but there are scissors, hammers, private parts and a lot of blood.) One reviewer called it the "sickest" movie ever to receive the BBFC's nod of approval. But our moral superiors were happy to release that film – alongside various other French and Japanese art movies with explicit sex and violence – because they trusted that only people like them, the decent, upstanding middle classes, are likely to go to the ICA to watch it. As censorship expert Tom Dewe Matthews has argued, the BBFC "has a bias in favour of arthouse audiences".
The Human Centipede 2 Plot and Storyline
The Human Centipede 2 tell the story about Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists in Germany, are drugged and kidnapped by crazed surgeon Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) when they seek help after their car breaks down. The women awake in a makeshift medical ward and witness Heiter informing a kidnapped truck driver (Rene de Wit) that he is "not a match" and killing him. When the women wake up a second time, Heiter has secured a new male captive, Japanese tourist Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura). The doctor explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating conjoined twins, but dreams of making new creatures that share a single digestive system. He describes in detail how he will surgically connect his three victims mouth-to-anus. After Lindsay fails in an attempt to escape, Heiter performs the surgery on his victims, placing Lindsay in the middle, Katsuro at the front, and Jenny at the rear. Before beginning the operation, Heiter explains to Lindsay that he had experimented with creating a 'three dog', also joined mouth-to-anus, which died shortly after surgery. Heiter tells Lindsay that the middle dog of his creation experienced the most pain, and as a punishment for her escape attempt she will become the middle part of his centipede.
Once the operation is complete the doctor tries to train his centipede as a pet, and watches with great delight as Lindsay is forced to swallow Katsuro's excrement. However, Heiter eventually becomes irritated after being kept awake by the constant screaming of his victims and realising that Jenny is dying from blood poisoning. When two detectives, Kranz (Andreas Leupold) and Voller (Peter Blankenstein), visit the house to investigate the disappearance of tourists, Heiter decides to add them to his centipede as replacements for Jenny. Heiter fails in an attempt to drug the detectives, and they leave the house to obtain a search warrant. The victims attempt to escape from the ward, crawling up the stairs, and Katsuro attacks Heiter. Their attempt to escape ultimately fails. Katsuro confesses to the doctor, in Japanese, that he deserves his fate because he had treated his family poorly. Katsuro then commits suicide by slitting his own throat with a piece of glass. The detectives return to the house and conduct separate searches, as Heiter hides near his swimming pool. Kranz finds the makeshift ward and then hears a gunshot. He discovers Heiter's victims before finding Voller dead in the swimming pool. Heiter shoots Kranz in the stomach, and Kranz responds by shooting Heiter in the head. Kranz then falls in the pool, dead. Back in the house, Jenny and Lindsay hold hands as Jenny dies from her infection. Lindsay is left alone in the house, trapped between her deceased fellow captives.
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