Movie review: Meet the censors

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