This is an admirable scruple, but a puzzling one, because it is largely absent from other Grimm tales, many of which feature mutilation, dismemberment, and cannibalism, not to speak of ordinary homicide, often inflicted on children by their parents or guardians.
It in fact predates the cinema, having its origins in Paris's once fashionable Grand Guignol theatre, a converted church where sensational plays featuring mutilation, torture and other forms of graphic horror were staged from the late 19th century until the 1960s.
The scene in question features female genital mutilation.
Then there is Lars von Trier's arthouse extreme horror Antichrist, featuring a genital mutilation scene that has had hardened journalists running for the exit.
Casualty's decision to feature female genital mutilation (FGM) on primetime television forced a previously "taboo" subject into mainstream debate.
The finding is consistent with the patient's phenotype, which includes dysmorphic features, ADHD, anxiety, self-mutilation, and stiff joints.
It features acts of rape and mutilation.
The measure of this "enlightened" audience was that no one walked out from a show that features sustained images of self-mutilation, masturbation and gratuitous manipulation of the public.
"Well, maybe not enjoy.... .. No, enjoy probably isn't the mot juste for the experience of "Blasted," which features acts of sexual assault and mutilation that would make Quentin Tarantino blanch.
The film, which was screened on Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son, and features a graphic scene of sexual mutilation.
