Media Release 11/07/06
The Society is pleased that the Office of Film and Literature Classification (see Scoop 7 July) has applied the censorship law correctly and banned the computer game Reservoir Dogs that is based on the Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-violent sick film of the same name. However, the Society’s president Mike Petrus says:
“The OFLC has a very poor track record when it it comes to applying the law correctly – in particular its failure to apply section 3 of the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993 (dealing with the definition of “objectionable” content) to films like Baise-Moi and Irreversible depicting sexual violence and large numbers of videos and DVDs where women are sexually degraded, demeaned and dehumanised.”