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User Reviews for: Censor

larz9
/10  3 years ago
This is another one of those movies where you don't get your time back. There is nothing clever about the plot. It just twaddles on aimlessly, leading up to very cheesy murder scenes that look like the product of a high school student's drama submission and sweet FA payoff in the end. Why this got the support of The National Lottery through The Arts Council of Wales is beyond me. It's simply a colossal waste of everyone's money.

Then again, if that is your sort of thing, then more power to you. Each to their own and all that. :)
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EmmanuelGoldstein
/10  6 months ago
**A movie completely removed from reality - which is the point**

A confusing, convoluted and completely absurd and unrealistic movie. Since this is of course all intentional, I am not entirely sure if that makes the movie better or worse. It's one of those movies that's really hard to rate and almost impossible to compare to any other movie, though it does feel very reminiscent of David Lynch movies.

But for those who just feel confused after watching it, let me explain it real fast. Basically the movie is comparing deranged, schizophrenic psychopaths to, well, movies censors :-)

Because the schizophrenic psycho killer loses his ability to tell what is real and what's not. Similarly, people engaged in censorship also loose their ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, or at least that's what the movie argues. Because censorship is almost always being justified by saying that without it, whatever is depicted in movies, would become a reality. Of course "normal" people can distinguish between reality and fiction, but schizophrenics can not, so censorship is necessarily to keep the schizophrenics from imitating fiction. But of course by arguing that fiction would become reality, the censors expose themselves as people who seem to have difficulty keeping reality and fiction separate. So then if it was really true that violent movies would make such people violent, then by their own logic, you would have to conclude that such censors themselves would become the most violent monsters ever, as they of course watch the most amount of horribly violent horror movies.

But even so, we have never heard of any censor going on a killing spree, except of course in this very movie itself, which would of course itself be categorized as a "video nasty". And that's the point.
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$hubes
4/10  one year ago
The best thing that can be said about _Censor_ is that its runtime is mercifully less than an hour and a half. While the acting was decent enough, the story never seemed to gather any traction at all so you were basically left to follow along aimlessly, wondering if they knew where they were going. (They didn't.) The conclusion was a confusing mess that has me still scratching my head; I mean, I **_think_** I know what their aim was but it was just very poorly executed so (speaking only for myself) you're left thinking, _"Huh? Was that... Did I... What...?"_

Looks like there are several high marks to offset several low marks on this one so obviously, it's not everyone's cup of tea. If you can sit through this one, then dab a linen napkin at the corner of your mouth and say, _"My! What a jolly good psychological thriller this was; quite entertaining, eh wot?"_ then I suppose that makes you "cultivated" or part of some "high society" that pretends they understand all the nuances of every film you sit through. News flash: Some films - this being one of them - don't have any nuances, subtle or otherwise. This was just a poorly-made film that wasn't executed properly. Possibly a good idea (but even that is suspect) but there were a number of ways this could have been much, much better. At only 84 minutes, though, I wouldn't wave any red flags saying, _"Don't waste your time!"_ It's just not as good as its made out to be.
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