We had our complaints about Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis' much-hyped lesbian scene in Black Swan (2010) here at Mr. Skin. But we have a feeling that the killjoys who griped about the film to the British Board of Film Classification last year had an entirely different issue with it.
Black Swan tops the UK film board's annual list of most complained-about films, receiving a total of 40 formal complaints from filmgoers who felt that the Sapphic scene "was pornographic in nature”, according to The Independent newspaper. The BBFC said that many of the complaints came from the "confounded expectations" of patrons who came expecting a "ballet movie" and instead were presented with an intense psychological thriller full of homoerotic subtext.
Trust us, guys, it should've been a lot worse.
The British have a long and not-so-proud history of censorship- check out the "video nasties" the BBFC doesn't want you to see from Love Camp 7 (1969) to The Human Centipede 2 (2011) right here at MrSkin.com!
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