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title = "Meet the Censors (2020)"
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date = 2020-11-28
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "documentary", "censorship", "stars:5"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12782812/):
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From a Kafkaesque office for social media in Germany into South Sudan military
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headquarters, to conversations with an Iranian Ayatollah, Indian film censors
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and Chinese news editors. Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum has traveled the
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world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to
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state their case.
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{{ stars(stars=5) }}
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With no pretense whatsoever, I decided to watch this documentary. Its start is
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a bit wobbly, making you feel like you just jumped in the middle of something
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else. But also, in the very start, lies the kernel of the movie.
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It all start with some Neo-nazi march. And there, it lies the question:
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Shouldn't those people be censored for spewing their hate? And thus start a
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quest to see how some countries do their censorship: What is censored? What are
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their rules? Do they *have* rules?
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The only downside is the ending: Sure, after going to China, Iran, India and
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such, you'd expect the filmmakers to go some where more "free". And, obviously,
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the "free" place is not as "free" as it seems.
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It's a curious documentary, with some expected results and some expected (no)
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answer.
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