Censorship - Moviegoers prefer DVD over censored film



"Cold Mountain" by director Anthony Minghella is expected to get a cold shoulder from the audience when it will be on show in Shanghai in April, writes the Shanghai Daily. Yet again the censors has used their scissors to cut away any nude or sex from the movie, before it can be shown in the cinemas.
But the Shanghai audience has by then already seen the original movie on illegal DVD's that are widely available in the city. It is yet another systems that turn the censorship into a joke and hurt a legitimate industry in favor of a more illegal one. Difference is that the industry today complains about the outdated censorship system in state-owned dailies.
Also 'Mona Lisa' missed recently a sex scene with Julia Roberts, the theaterowners complain. They would rather see a rating-system in stead of the scissors.

Update How weird, it is even the official government newswire Xinhua publishing the same article making the censors look foolish. Where is this country going to? :-)