I'm not talking about movies that were banned in the past for being too gory (ie Cannibal Holocaust etc) or religiously insensitive at the time but would be accepted now, I mean movies where the subject matter is still controversial no matter what the time period is. Here are 5 I can think off:
Irreversible
Audience reaction to both the lengthy, violent sexual attack (especially female viewers) and disquietingly brutal murder has ranged from appreciation of its artistic merit to leaving the theater in disgust
The Passion Of The Christ
Accused of being nothing but a 'snuff movie' and strongly anti-Semitic
Natural Born Killers
Director Stone has continually maintained that the film is a satire on how serial killers are adored by the media for their horrific actions and that those who claim that the violence in the movie itself is a cause of societal violence miss the point of the movie
Crash
The film was extremely controversial, as was the book because of its vivid depictions of graphic sexual acts instigated by violence
Fahrenheit 9/11
British-American journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens contended that Fahrenheit 9/11 contains distortions and untruths (it was supposedly a Documentary)
Others I couln't fit in were:
The Last Temptation Of Christ - The film depicts Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, a notion that has caused outrage from some Christians
A Clockwork Orange - A shocking look at adolescent violence
The Exorcist - Writing in Rolling Stone, Jon Landau felt the film was, "Nothing more than a religious porn film''
Feel free to add more
Irreversible
Audience reaction to both the lengthy, violent sexual attack (especially female viewers) and disquietingly brutal murder has ranged from appreciation of its artistic merit to leaving the theater in disgust
The Passion Of The Christ
Accused of being nothing but a 'snuff movie' and strongly anti-Semitic
Natural Born Killers
Director Stone has continually maintained that the film is a satire on how serial killers are adored by the media for their horrific actions and that those who claim that the violence in the movie itself is a cause of societal violence miss the point of the movie
Crash
The film was extremely controversial, as was the book because of its vivid depictions of graphic sexual acts instigated by violence
Fahrenheit 9/11
British-American journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens contended that Fahrenheit 9/11 contains distortions and untruths (it was supposedly a Documentary)
Others I couln't fit in were:
The Last Temptation Of Christ - The film depicts Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, a notion that has caused outrage from some Christians
A Clockwork Orange - A shocking look at adolescent violence
The Exorcist - Writing in Rolling Stone, Jon Landau felt the film was, "Nothing more than a religious porn film''
Feel free to add more
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