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Insect in the Backyard – Movie, banned in Thialand
I thought this was an interesting artical, more from the view point that I thought Thialand was a bit more ‘open’ in its views. I guess banning the movie shows the conservative side of Thai society.
Insect in the Backyard
Tanwarin Sukkapisit talks about his feature film that has been banned twice for the reason of being against ‘public morals’
Published: 26/11/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: RealtimeLet’s forget the politics of s/he, his/her, bio/sociological _ the politics of trans _ she says. Man or woman, katoey or transvestite or cross-dresser or transgender, no matter the label, no matter what noun or pronoun, she doesn’t mind. What Tanwarin Sukkapisit minds is why her latest movie was banned, twice, by the rating committee. What she minds is why the board believes her film, Insects in the Backyard, is a ”disruption of national order and public morals,” according to Article 29 of the Film Act 2008. Why her film, and never, say, the slap party insouciantly displayed on TV every night?
The full write up can be seen
http://www.bangkokpost.com/entertainment/movie/208221/insect-in-the-backyard
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Yes this was a continuing story in the papers while I was in Bangkok.
Actually the Government of Thailand does have some fairly strict conservative regulations:
for example on free to air TV no one can even be shown kissing, and of course there are NO bedroom scenes. Even drinking alcohol (filmed in foreign made programing) is blurred out so you cant see what the actor is drinking. Its a fairly conservative place as there is little (I saw none) showing of affection in public (by Thai people). As far as I know there is no legal, er adult material available. (Gee it sounds like Australia in the 1950’s *smiles*).
Of course there are always places where ‘adult’ entertainment is available whether this is legal or not I have no idea, and it mainly seems targeted at foreigners (think Pattaya and Patpong Road in Bangkok).
