Carnal Review

I saw Carnal Knowledge on Saturday night. Fine I've just read Rex Benson's comments in Salient No. 6 and I'm jelly. According to Benson the film has been hacked to pieces, (he mentions "lacerated, mutilated and decimated") Why? Simply because the censor had the good sense to remove eight (verbal) fucks and two (spoken) cunts? What petty quibbling bullshit. Do these words constitute reality, scream realism or cry fair play? They only illustrate how far under the belt the cinema industry has stooped in the interests of the purient minded (after masquerading in the quise of hip cinema-intellectuals). The roving eye of the camera, the dress and actions of the actors are the only tools needed to "tell it like it is" (for those of us who don't know). We don't need gutter language to show us we're walking in sewers, nor do we need reviewers to fill in the blank lines, "*!! *!!'s" and "Blatantly obvious" cuts that this film-goer missed.

Next year the censer will cut beastiality scenes and give on-screen fornication an R 18 rating. But Benson and Sympathisers will have to fly to Scandinavia to catch the originals. Who knows, once there they might even let you make your own.