There’s a couple of movie channels on cable TV playing Hollywood movies in Enlglish (I’ve watched some shockers that strangely didn’t seem so bad here), and its taken me a few days to figure out what I was finding slightly unnerving about the films. The sex scenes are cut out. Something was irking me a little bit about the films I was watching (besides the bad scripts) but it took me a few days to notice that it was the total absence of nudity. Initially I thought that the station was just being prudent in their selection, until I watched a film that I knew there was nudity in. Or isn’t, in Thailand.
It’s strangely distracting not to have sex in a film. While it can be too gratuitous back home, I keep expecting something to ‘pop-up’ but it never does. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not Mr Randy-Pants, but it just feels weird that it’s not there. Violence, however, is OK.
At lunch I asked a few people (1 girl from Singapore, 1 girl from India, and two boys from the UK) “Is nudity cut out of films here?”
“Yes!” was the very quick reply from the guys. “But you can show someone being shot.”
“Well violence is a part of life” from my female Indian colleague.
“So’s sex!” The two UK lads simultaneously.
“That’s such a western view.” - Indian female. Apparently sex isn’t a part of life in India.
BAD MOVIES WATCHED: 3
CULTURAL REFERENCE I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND: 1
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