Thursday, February 5, 2015

Malaysia banned the film Fifty Shades of Grey

Poster film Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey movie was going to start playing in Malaysia on 12 February.


alaysian censors have banned the film in erotic romance movie Fifty Shades of Grey screened at various theaters in the country.



Head of film censorship agency, Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid, said the film was to be premiered on February 12 that, not suitable for viewers in Malaysia.

Abdul Hamid calls Fifty Shades of Grey is more appropriate to be called as pornography.

"The Council believes that censors the film contains scenes that are not classified as natural sexual scene. The scene sadistic, for example women bound and whipped," said Abdul Halim, as quoted by the media in Malaysia.

United International Pictures, the film distributor company, confirmed that the Fifty Shades of Grey will not be played in Malaysia.

Calls for a boycott

The film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson is lifted from the popular novel of the same title.

Since it was first published novel was already controversy because it was considered too vulgar.

Jamie DornanJamie Dornan, the cast of Grey, has been named the sexiest man by Glamour magazine.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the film in the United States entered the adult film category.

This film is about the relationship between Anastasia Steele, played by Dakota Johnson, a student majoring in literature, with a handsome entrepreneur Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan, who by Glamour magazine crowned the sexiest man Worldwide.

In the US, a number of domestic nonviolence activists called for a boycott of the film.

Campaigners say the ticket money to watch this movie better be donated to organizations that defend the victims of domestic violence.


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Source: BBC
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