Spoilers. The beheading-rape scene is very disturbing and graphic as well, a woman is violently sodomized and beaten, she is then decapitated and the man continues to rape her dead body. The 'uncut' version has an extremely graphic, sustained scene involving the rape of a newborn baby.
In some scenes Milos witnesses, or is forced to witness, acts of sexual violence, including the suggestion that a new born baby is being raped. In the cut version, the rape of the baby occurs entirely offscreen, implied only by the sounds of the baby crying and by the reactions of the onlooking Milos and Vukmir.
Quite obviously Vukmir is producing a snuff movie and forces Milos, whether or not under the influence of drugs, to do extremely nasty stuff to his co-actresses in front of the camera. Undoubtedly, "A Serbian Film" is deeply unpleasant and grim, but the film isn't so much disturbing as it is gratuitous and provocative.
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The doctor holds the baby by his legs and forcefully pats his back. Then, exactly what everyone didn't want to happen, happens. The man begins thrusting into the baby, and though the shot leaves the screen and turns to Milos' disgusted face, we can still faintly hear the man moaning.
The UK release was cut, cuts required to remove portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context and images of sexual and sexualised violence which have a tendency to eroticise or endorse the behaviour, in order to obtain an 18 classification.
Before being released, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) reviewed the film and exercised its right to make cuts to the film before approving it. The BBFC required 49 cuts, which totaled up to three minutes and 48 seconds being removed from the film to even receive an NC-17 rating.
Depp has recently worked on Serbian-related projects, including shooting scenes in Belgrade for Minimata and lending his voice for a lead role in the Serbian-produced animated series, Puffins.
The EU-supported Serbian film Impure Blood – Sin of Ancestors will be available on the Netflix platform from this month. This is considered a huge recognition for Serbian cinematography and it opens up opportunities for its visibility at a global level.
The final rape scene, in which a drugged-up Milos unwittingly assaults his young son as his brother rapes his wife, has been censored to remove the moment where Vukmir reveals that it is in fact Milos's son.
If you liked A Serbian Film (2010), you might also like Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).
NC-17 originally stood for "No Children Under 17 Admitted" to combat the misconception that the rating indicated a film was pornographic. In 1996, the MPA reworded the NC-17 rating to "No One 17 and Under Admitted", effectively raising the minimum age for admission from 17 to 18.
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Due to the downright disturbing contents of A Serbian Film, a whopping 46 countries - including Australia, Malaysia, Norway, New Zealand and Spain - banned it. The people who still braved watching it despite this reckon they have been traumatised for life, so do keep that in mind before you grab the remote.
The Human Centipede was banned altogether from Icelandic, British, and Australian theaters and released in the US without a rating. Its sequel, The Human Centipede 2, was placed under even heavier bans, due to its exacerbation of the horrific elements in the first film.
Later, Vukmir shows Milo another one of his projects: a film of Raa helping a woman give birth to a baby girl; Raa then proceeds to rape the newborn in what the director calls "newborn porn".
After the baby is born, in some parts of Serbia red string is tied around its wrist, to protect the baby from the “evil eye” and bring it good fortune. According to the belief, the baby should not be taken out of home for the first forty days, and people should not visit the baby during this period either.
A short excerpt from Gummo was shown after the opening sequence in the 1998 film Belly. Film websites Mubi and They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have listed Gummo among their 1000 greatest films of all time.
