The Sex: In a moment which underpins all the hallucinatory guilt and emotional devastation to follow, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg make love in a scene cross-cut with their young son climbing out of his crib and, as the twin sequences climax, falling to his death.
The Controversy: The moment is deeply unpleasant on its own, but married with later revelations – Gainsbourg's possible knowledge of her son's impending death, the couple's increasingly violent sex, the bit where she chops her bits off – it becomes the foundation for a divisive, exploitative and deeply distressing work. Typical Lars Von Trier, basically.
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Rasputin
Jun 2nd 2010, 11:42
I swear you just make these blogs so you can have a pop at Howard The Duck. Not without reason, admittedly.
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DonisFun
Jun 2nd 2010, 12:35
I would have included 'Ken Park' for the scene when a father tries to give his son oral, taking advantage when he was stoned.... horrid and disturbing.......Good film though!
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kaysad
Jun 2nd 2010, 14:27
very disturbing! Shows you how freaky people are! No moral compass! Really, very disturbing.
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blackrainpr
Jun 2nd 2010, 14:52
is not a sex scene but the one in bad lieutenant, the old one, it was kind of disturbing, when the cop is jacking off when he stops those two girls loool
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blackrainpr
Jun 2nd 2010, 14:52
is not a sex scene but the one in bad lieutenant, the old one, it was kind of disturbing, when the cop is jacking off when he stops those two girls loool
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Ichi1
Jun 2nd 2010, 15:59
How about Straw Dogs?
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Hadouken76
Jun 2nd 2010, 22:57
Tim Roths directorial debut The War Zone is so brutal it brought the lead actor Ray Winstone to tears
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DanRose
Jun 6th 2010, 15:24
Brown Bunny? Not really a 'sex' scene but nonetheless... and lets not forget Irreversible...
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FlickFan
Jul 25th 2010, 19:58
Apparently you haven't seen Splice yet. It zooms to #1 in a heartbeat and add the word disturbing.
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