Those are extraordinary home video numbers for an R-rated movie that's in a foreign language and features graphic violence.
Vivienne Pattison is director of Mediawatch UK, a campaign group that fights for "family values" in the media, and against graphic violence.
Rate the kind of graphic violence that damages children NC-17.
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Certainly, throughout history, all the way back to the Babylonians with Gilgamesh, violence, even incredibly graphic violence, with Gilgamesh, the first piece of literature ever written, full of rapes and all kinds of crazy stuff.
The Family Movie Act of 2005, signed by President George W. Bush on Wednesday, was aimed at folks who use software to cut out four-letter words, nudity and graphic violence from movies they rent or buy for home viewing.
As a result, from a game design standpoint, the general consensus among the video gaming community is that it is acceptable to include violence, even very graphic violence, in a video game for no other reason than making the game more exciting.
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From an outsider perspective, this creates an interesting ethical disconnect, where even the implication of sexual violence for audience gratification is somehow taboo while other explicit, graphic acts of violence (including shooting dead multiple people) are somehow acceptable for our amusement.
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Along with graphic sex and violence, there are "Beach Blanket Bingo" elements and nods to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns.
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While he describes the Jyllands-Posten episode as a "controversy of the internet age, " Chappatte -- who has just returned from a graphic reporting assignment on urban violence in Guatemala -- remains enthusiastic about the potential of cyberspace.
Much of the movie is grim and disturbing: Ike abuses Tina in just about every way a man can abuse a woman, and the domestic-violence scenes are intense, harrowingly graphic.
The administration decided to keep the photos classified, saying the graphic nature of the images would only incite further violence or be used for propaganda purposes.
This exhibit of abstract yet graphic sculptures and paintings is a stark commentary on drug violence by resident artist Emiliano Gironella.
"It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, " he added.
It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool.
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