Movies have many different impacts on
us. They can have saddening, happy, depressing, motivational and
inspirational impacts etc. Similarly, there are movies that give rise to
a lot of controversy, and these particular movies are usually on one of
the following themes; graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious
and political or race-related. This list discusses ten of the most
controversial movies of all time based on opinion along with their
synopsis. I hope you enjoy the read.
10. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
The movie stars Jim Carrey as a Texas police officer-turned-con man
who makes the leap to white-collar criminal after being sent to prison
and falling in love with his sensitive cellmate. Steve Russell (Carrey)
is a small-town cop. Bored with his bland lifestyle, Russell turns to
fraud as a means of shaking things up. Before long, Russell’s criminal
antics have landed him behind bars, where he encounters the charismatic
Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Smitten, Russell devotes his entire life
to being with Morris regardless of the consequences — which could well
include a life sentence.
9. A SERBIAN FILM
Milos (Srdjan Todorovic) was once a star in pornographic movies, well
known for his ability to perform longer than any of his peers, but he
gave up his career and now lives a quiet life with his wife and young
son. Milos has been having serious money problems and wants to better
provide for his family, so when an old friend tells him about a wealthy
filmmaker who’d like to work with him, he’s willing to listen. Vukmir
(Sergej Trifunovic) is a mysterious man who offers to pay Milos a huge
sum to appear in his next film — enough to support his family for life.
Milos agrees, even though Vukmir won’t tell him what the movie is about
8. FAHRENHEIT 9/11
This movie looks beyond the inner echelons of General Motors and
Lockheed Martin in hopes of outing the evildoers in the White House,
particularly in regards to the 43rd President of the United States,
George W. Bush. In addition to criticizing the administration’s handling
of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World
Trade Center, Moore digs deep into the surprising relationship with the
Bin Laden family held by both Bush administrations, and questions
whether or not potential Saudi involvement with the attacks has been
ignored.
7. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
Mel Gibson’s well-publicized production The Passion of the Christ
concerns the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The
dialogue is spoken in the ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and
Hebrew. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus
(James Caviezel) is betrayed by Judas Iscariot (Luca Lionello). Jesus is
condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate
(Hristo Naumov Shopov), the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The
roaring crowd demand his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion.
6. KIDS
Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous,
thoughtless New York City teens in their ceaseless quest for sex, drugs,
and trouble. The film primarily follows Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), who,
having just realized the conquest of his latest virgin, brags that by
day’s end he will claim one more. While he and his friends brag to each
other about their sexual exploits, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny) describes her
own less-than-romantic encounter with Telly. Soon after the
conversation, she learns that Telly, the only boy with whom she has
slept, has infected her with the AIDS virus. Devastated, she sets out to
find him and share the news.
5. NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) are united by
their desire for each other and their common love of violence. Together,
they embark on a record-breaking, exceptionally gory killing spree that
captivates the sensation-hungry tabloid media. Their fame is ensured by
one newsman, Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.), who reports on Mickey and
Mallory for his show, American Maniacs. Even the duo’s eventual capture
by the police only increases their notoriety, as Gale develops a plan
for a Super Bowl Sunday interview that Mickey and Mallory twist to their
own advantage. Visually overwhelming, Robert Richardson’s hyperkinetic
cinematography switches between documentary-style black-and-white,
surveillance video, garishly colored psychedelia, and even animation in a
rapid-fire fashion that mirrors the psychosis of the killers and the
media-saturated culture that makes them popular heroes.
4. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial
adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel. The film depicts a sometimes
reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity
and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene
with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as a hallucination
experienced by Jesus as he suffers on the cross. This particular
sequence was what infuriated the film’s most rabid critics, but in fact
it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to be found in the film and
its source novel. Equally volatile are the intimations that, as a
carpenter, Jesus indifferently shaped the crucifixes for other condemned
prisoners long before his own fate was sealed, and that Judas (Harvey
Keitel) was literally manipulated into betrayal by a Christ whose
preoccupation with his own destiny compelled him to “use” others.
3. SALO
The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini,
this film updates the Marquis de Sade’s most extreme novel to fascist
Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel’s
meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini
presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and
subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an
isolated villa. Rape, murder, and a coprophagic banquet are only the
beginning of the atrocities on display
2. LAST TANGO IN PARIS
Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic
performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in “emotional exile” who
comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet
young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), Paul enters into a
sadomasochistic, carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the
hypocrisy all around him through his raw, outrageous sexual behavior.
Paul also hopes to purge himself of his own feelings of guilt,
brilliantly (and profanely) articulated in a largely ad-libbed monologue
at his wife’s coffin.
1. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly
ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess’s novel,
complete with “Nadsat” slang. Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex
(Malcolm McDowell) and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high at
the Korova Milkbar before embarking on “a little of the old
ultraviolence,” such as terrorizing a writer, Mr. Alexander (Patrick
Magee), and gang raping his wife (who later dies as a result). After
Alex is jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady (Miriam Karlin) to death
with one of her phallic sculptures, Alex submits to the Ludovico
behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he’s conditioned to
abhor violence through watching gory movies, and even his adored
Beethoven is turned against him. Returned to the world defenseless, Alex
becomes the victim of his prior victims, with Mr. Alexander using
Beethoven’s Ninth to inflict the greatest pain of all.
source : http://www.smashinglists.com/most-controversial-movies/
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