Tom Six - the Human Centipede - Has it gone too far ?.

[clapham_gull]

I don't know anything about this film and don't intend watching - but on a general point, I do sometimes get a bit annoyed by artists when the reaction to their work (including a call for censorship) doesn't quite fit in with their own conception of how the work should be received.

If the point of art is to create a reaction then you really can't complain if some people get offended by it. That's hypocritical.

I don't really agree with censorship of films like the above either. These days people can easily hunt them down and make their own minds up.

However, I don't agree that the only people who are allowed to be offended are the ones who have actually watched it. Perfectly acceptable in my book to be offended by the thought of something rather than the reality of it. Suggesting that some people have no right to be offended (the turn it off argument) is a form of censorship itself in my book.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Because there is nothing bad within the musical genre?

Er, yes Acker, i'm a big Howard Keel fan, right up to his Dallas days when he took to blowing up Southfork.

 

[DJ Leon]

Have you seen it Uncle Spielberg? Or are you suggesting that it's gone too far without actually having seen it?

 

[Easy 10]

Have you seen it Uncle Spielberg? Or are you suggesting that it's gone too far without actually having seen it?

In fairness, I think if you know the premise to this film (people stitched together anus-to-mouth, and shitting directly into each others mouths), its quite difficult to imagine how this can be tastefully or thoughtfully presented.

Maybe the performances are impressive though, I dunno.

 

[Silent Bob]

In fairness, I think if you know the premise to this film (people stitched together anus-to-mouth, and shitting directly into each others mouths), its quite difficult to imagine how this can be tastefully or thoughtfully presented.

But that's no reason to ban it.
You're not going to get kids going round sewing people together mouse to arse because they've seen it in a film are you? It's just a twisted high concept idea.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

How does an actor comeback from that?

Casting Agent: We are delighted you could attend today. We're very excited about this project that should appeal to both adults and children. What was the last project you were involved in?

Actress: I was the middle one in Human Centipede.

Casting Agent: NEXT!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Have you seen it Uncle Spielberg? Or are you suggesting that it's gone too far without actually having seen it?

I invited my Mum and Dad around but they declined to watch it we watched Keeping Mum instead. Now I could be wrong and it may be very tastefully done but watching a bloke shitting from his anus into a woman whose mouth has been stitched to it is not really my cup of tea but thanks for the offer.

 

[SussexHoop]

How does an actor comeback from that?

Casting Agent: We are delighted you could attend today. We're very excited about this project that should appeal to both adults and children. What was the last project you were involved in?

Actress: I was the middle one in Human Centipede.

Casting Agent: NEXT!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i liked the way that they made of point of claiming it to be "100% medically accurate"

well, yeah, it's medically accurate that its possible to stitch people together, but it's ALSO accurate that atleast one of them will die of blood poisoning due to them solely eating SHIT

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Despite being entirely deplorable and revolting, this B-movie horror from Dutch film-maker Tom Six is also … well, sort of brilliant. It scales the heights of yuckiness. It places a flag on a hitherto undreamt-of Everest-peak of offensiveness. Undreamt of by me, anyway. The central idea might get a thoughtful, respectful nod from Dr Hannibal Lecter. Dieter Laser plays Dr Heiter, a retired surgeon and predatory psychopath who has captured three young people – two Americans, one Japanese – and is holding them prisoner in a makeshift operating-theatre-cum-vivisectional-research-unit that he has built in his cellar. He plans to unite the destinies of this luckless trio in ways that I cannot bring myself to describe here. For this absurdist nightmare, the director may have been inspired by Josef Fritzl, or conceivably by the Jean-Paul Sartre maxim "hell is other people". But it's most likely he was inspired by the television programme that he himself developed in its original form on Dutch television: Big Brother. Those of a nervous disposition need to stay away.
Film review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) | Film | The Guardian


Don't think I'll bother somehow

 

[Easy 10]

But that's no reason to ban it.
You're not going to get kids going round sewing people together mouse to arse because they've seen it in a film are you? It's just a twisted high concept idea.

Oh I wouldn't ban it. I just wouldn't be interested in seeing it.
I'm not sure it can be described as "high concept" though. More like someone has simply tried to think of the most revolting thing they can imagine, and cobbled a fim around it for shock value. Its almost childish really.

 

[beorhthelm]

censorship other than self censorship is rather pointless and tend to be counter productive. anyone threatening the director needs to get a life. they dont have to watch it, if it offends them then how can they abuse and threaten someone?

for this film specifically, the whole premise is ludicrous as it simply wouldnt work as anyone with basic biology education would understand. poo is waste with very little water, the two "downstream" would die in a couple of days. if they didnt die of shock immediatly upon waking.

 

[El Presidente]

a bloke shitting from his anus into a woman whose mouth has been stitched to it

Is it possible to shit from anywhere other than your anus though...............hold on............I'm thinking Cliff Richard..........shudder.

 

[El Presidente]

poo is waste with very little water

After 8 pints of GUINNESS it is a veritable feast though.

 

[El Presidente]

More like someone has simply tried to think of the most revolting thing they can imagine, and cobbled a fim around it for shock value

Are we talking about Simon Jordan in a love tryst with Susan Boyle here?

 

[Laughing Gravy]

I saw the first one. It made me cringe when the jap guy had a poo

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Parents: Unless you want tears before bedtime, DO NOT confuse 'The Hungry Caterpillar' with 'The Human Centipede', IT IS NOT A SEQUEL.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

fancy making a centipede danny?

shotgun behind you

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

censorship other than self censorship is rather pointless and tend to be counter productive. anyone threatening the director needs to get a life. they dont have to watch it, if it offends them then how can they abuse and threaten someone?

for this film specifically, the whole premise is ludicrous as it simply wouldnt work as anyone with basic biology education would understand. poo is waste with very little water, the two "downstream" would die in a couple of days. if they didnt die of shock immediatly upon waking.

In the film they get intravenous feeding to stop them dying.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Its just a notch up from the Nazi experiments on the Jews which is where the German Doctor idea comes in.