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Posted by jeremy cooper/ clare picking Jeremy Cooper and Clare Picking
on October 7, 2007, 7:19 pm
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At the beginning of the season we all have to trust the Committee’s judgement to put together a programme that will stimulate and challenge us in equal measure. We question the Committee’s choice of ‘London to Brighton’, a relentlessly extreme cocktail of sadism, paedophilia, child prostitution, child homelessness, street sex, gratuitous violence and kidnapping. The Committee should have anticipated that it could be (and in many cases was) very distressing to the audience. At a time when there are so many fantastic films (including those that deal with equally challenging subject matters), why was such a film chosen for the ‘captive audience’ of a membership film society? Members should have been given detailed advance warning of the subject matter to decide whether to attend. But we do question whether such a film should be shown in a membership film society at all?
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