Australia Police Shut Down Film Showing
 

"Police shut down a public screening of a U.S. movie banned in Australia because of its explicit sex and violence, sparking outrage from free speech advocates.

"Ken Park," a provocative film by "Kids" director Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, catalogues the dysfunctional lives of teenage skateboarders in the suburbs of Visalia, Calif.

Its underage sex scenes and graphic violence led Australian authorities to refuse it a classification _ effectively banning it from cinemas across the country.

To protest the move, about 500 people attended a public viewing of the movie late Wednesday in the upscale Sydney suburb of Balmain.

No one was arrested, but police seized the DVD on stage and took the names of four people who admitted to pressing the play button, among them movie critic Margaret Pomeranz and Australian Broadcasting Corp. broadcaster Julie Rigg. If they are charged with illegally screening the banned film, they face a maximum sentence of a year in prison."

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:lol: It took 4 people to press play. That's Australia for you.:p

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:rofl:

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:lol: That's so funny I think I'm gonna fall of my chair..........

:rolleyes:

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Don't listen to them bobcat, Australian's are cool. I wish we had $2 coins. :(

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I don't need to listen to them, I'm just pointing out how incredibly stupid that joke (if it was meant to be one) was.

And yes, 2 dollar coins kick ass :D

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I made that reply just for you:p
And we don't need no $2 coins, we have $2 bills.

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And a lot of thought went into it I'm sure. Very witty indeed :rolleyes:

I'm starting to c why Joeiss loves you so much.

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lol bobcat.... Canadians have two dollar coins as well.. They are called Twonies... get it? Loonies and twonies? hahahah....

That reminds me of a joke. Hey guys, I have three knees. My left knee, my right knee, and my wee"knee"! har har har har har....

lol... sorry for the bad joke... but whatever.. lol. what's done is done.


And I am not sure if you guys were just trying to make bad jokes about Australians, or you cannot comprehend English to well, but obviously it was four people at different places who watched the movie ... lol.


:D

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I was just making a harmless joke. The opportunity was right there to make it, so I took advantage of it.

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No you were just making a stupid joke. It's harmful because it reeks of stupidity.

:confused:

riiight.

my initial reaction to the first post was "it took 4 of em to press play!?"
then reading the second post it said the same as my first thought, however there was no need to add "thats Australians for you" that was just unecesary. But ohwell, it offends some and not others.
i just think it was stupid to make such a cheap shot.

in any case i've never heard of that movie or it being banned in here, ohwell.

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Where in Australia do you live Clone?

CAnberra, the capatil of Australia :aust:

maybe i should change my profile a bit

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Did you go to the 14th Australian International Music Festival by any chance? I was there!

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Where bouts was that Gamemaster?

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The Sydney Town Hall and Opera House, sorry we couldn't meet up bobcat. :( Our adults/teachers said we couldn't socialize with anyone outside the group. But at least I have the satisfaction of knowing I've walked in your hometown city!

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Sydney Town Hall? I walk though there every day. Now I know what you're talking about.

Many schools play bands and stuff. You guys were playing weren't you's?

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Yeah, we played the 29th and 30th of June there.

Lol, we probably walked right past one another, the irony of it all!

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Why the hell not?

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because all teachers are evil and dedicated to making student's like a living hell :D

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They said it could be dangerous talking with a stranger in a foreign continent.

That and what Gimpy said. :D ;)