What the Beep???

I couldn't sleep last night and started watching (the way you watch most any movie on SyFy) "100 Feet" in a weak moment. While I still can't decide if the flick is reinforcing woman as victim stereotypes or celebrating "I am woman; hear me roar" I do know one thing: whoever edits and censors these movies for tv is seriously crazy.

Throughout the entire movie any time someone utters a curse (whether mild or strong) the age-old bleep-out kicks in (even though we can clearly tell what is being said every time!). Yet when one of the most graphic deaths to EVER be shot on film occurs (we're talking worse than any of the "Saw" films) not one second is spared...

Now I don't believe in censorship at all (I don't!!) but I DO think there is something screwy going on when the film editors are worried more about words like "shit" and "fuck" than they are about a horrific, horrific scene of violence...the same thing goes with sex. Sex scenes are often yanked or softened when movies are being considered for tv viewing, even if they are clearly between two people in love. Sex without love or between two complete strangers may be base at times, but it still revolves around something that happens (consensually) between two adults whereas violence is born out of hatred or the need to destroy.

Often people who like to censor cite "moral concern" as their reason...yet isn't violence one of the biggest problems plaguing our world today? What does it say about us when violence in all its sadistic glory is apparently a go, but love and four letter words aren't?

Oh and p.s....even though I found this movie to be very unsettling and hard to get through, I do think Famke Janssen did as best she could with this rotten material...she deserves better dialogue and better storylines!! (But I'll save my soapboxing about how hard it is for women over 40 in Hollywood for another time.)