#even when its something violent or blasphemous like The Devils or Cannibal Holocaust

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RANT TIME WEEWOO WEEWOO

If I'm looking for a movie, and its NC-17, then I want the original uncut movie. I wouldn't seek it out if I couldn't handle the material. I'm sick of looking for a movie (Bad Lieutenant in this case, but there's been others) and only finding mangled, chopped up R rated versions.

I think the only NC-17 movie I've been able to find uncut on streaming (legally) is The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, and I'm glad it wasn't chopped up. It has become one of my favorite films. It's a gorgeous, gutwrenching movie; tough to watch in parts, and I don't recommend it to any of my friends with giving them ample warning about the graphic themes first, but the reward of the beautiful tableau and narrative is worth it.

Idk, everything has become so fucking sanitized, and absolutely there should be content warnings for media so people are warned if there's triggering content. But difficult art should not be relentlessly sanitized and censored for the sake of corporate distribution.

There's stuff that triggering for me in movies like The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover or Bad Lieutenant. I'm very open about being a survivor of SA and it's hard for me to watch. But I'm ready for it going in and I'm good for it. Because, if I thought I couldn't handle it, I would just avoid the movie, or manually skip scenes, I wouldn't ask for chunks of a film to be excised.

And I know it's not individuals or "SJWs" or whatever that are doing this, it's the corporations that own these IPs that doing it, which makes me all the more cynical. I don't need the higher ups of HBO Max or Netflix or whatever deciding whether or not I can handle the full film I'm fucking looking for. I dont need everything in my life Disneyfied and sanitized. By all means, absolutely put a trigger warning before the piece you're showing, let people know what they're in for, but don't touch the piece itself. Jesus god.