Has there ever been a more controversial year in the cinema since 1971? It was the year when Ken Russell's "devils" caused rage with his graphic sexuality and jealous images; Elsewhere, Divided Critics of Stanley Kubrick, shared critics with ugly violence After making his New York debut, while Ted Kotchef's "awakening" to Ted Kotchef turned his stomachs with his kangaroo hunting sequence. In the United States, the bracelets were turned off after Chase's code gave up the place of the milder MPA ranking system in 1968, allowing directors to explore challenging topics and show sex and violence in more explicit details. Among the US films that stimulated these new borders were Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" and Sam Pekinpah's "Slavic Dogs", an intense Misantropic psychodrama that became notorious about the sexual assault.

"Straw Dogs" was Pekinpah's first non-western film, and it was an unusual hybrid, existing in mostly indelectly tightening between British British folk horror scene (it was released the same year as "Satan's Satan's Blood", in itself part of "Invalid Trinity of Folk Horror") And the fierce wild Western machinery made by the bloody Sam infamous. It was also an end to Beijingpah himself, who was recently fired from Warner Bros. following the catastrophic production of the "Cable Hog's ballad". With several options, the director headed southwest of England to adapt to Gordon William's novel "The Siege of Trancher's Farm" - a book that Pekinpa considered "crazy", except for his piece of climate.

"Straw Dogs" starred in Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as David and Amy Sumner, a poorly adapted young couple moving to Amy's native village in a remote corner of Cornwall. The local men resent one of their own marrying a meek American Academic and Tensions Simmer as Amy's Ex-BoyFriend, Charlie Venner (Del Henney), and His Roughneck Friends are hired to work on the couple's home, home, culminating in a vicious attack on amy and a subsequent last stand as the summing unwittingly harbor a sex Offender. It turned out so controversial in the UK that the British Board for Classification of the Film (BBFC) only in 2002 raised a domestic video ban. Let's look closely at the huge controversial classic of Beijingpa and how it holds today.

The disturbing "straw dog" sexual shins are clear from the beginning of the moments when we first meet Amy, parading confidently through the village in a short skirt and bra less under her sweater. A younger peasant girl named Iceenis (Sally Thomset) imitates her attitude and feeling of dress, while men folk see lust and disapproval - this is a remote rural community and they are not caught with the latest trends in the liberation of women. There is also the little work of Henry Nils (David Warner), a contemptible local children's prayer, which only tolerates the villagers because he is one of theirs.

David is unpleasant in the presence of stormy red-blooded types in Amy, passing the feelings of inadequacy with his wife through humiliating comments and accusing her of led them. She retaliates by flirting with Charlie and other workers to express it. After one of the men kills his cat to intimidate David, Amy suffocates to prove his masculinity and he accepts an invitation to hunt the boys on the moons. But it turns out that Ruse as Charlie headed to the farm and forced Amy, followed by a second and more brutal injury to his friend Skato (Ken Hutchinson).

This sexual assault scene was controversial at the time and is probably even more problematic than a modern perspective. Although Amy tries to take Charlie and says "no", she succumbs and she seems to enjoy the first attack of her former. It is a frightening scene that works in the context of the construction of antagonism and the story of the story, but is found to be extremely misogyous because the film suggests that Amy gets what she deserves and Beijingpa could not agree. Part of it may have been played on his reputation as a provocateur, but the director often reviews interviews with incredibly offensive opinions about women and their role in sexual intercourse. Discussing "straw dogs" with Playboy In 1972 Thanks to this attitude, it is not difficult to see why the film still deters and disturbs viewers to this day.

Straw Dogs "is also controversial for its Strong Violence, which fully explodes in the final siege at the Farm. Things kick off as david and amy attend an event at the church. Reviled Henry Niles Accidentally Kills Her and escapes from the scene, but is wasted by David, while the luster rides at home.

The siege is an extended sequence of sustainable tension as David uses his smartphones to overcome, cripple and eventually kill domestic attackers. While not as sprayer as The heinous "Wild Cup" finale, It feels more daunting because of the claustrophobic environment and prolonged brutality. The more disturbing than the crowd is David's behavior, as he enters the caves mode to defend his sticker, literally pulling Amy from her hair at one point. One of Beijingpa's regular topics was a research on the violence inherent in society, and, as "awakening in fear" and "Apocalypse now" a few years later, the true horror is the primitivism that lurks beneath the surface of the modern world and how fast men are regressing.

Similar to the "Wild Cup", "Straw Dogs" is a blunt condemnation of Beijingpa violence, which portrays it as something that debates everyone who touches them. As the Playboy director told him:

"You can't do the violence realistically to the audience today without rubbing the noses in it. We see our wars and see that men die, really die, every day on television, but it doesn't look real. We were anesthetized by the media. What I do is to show people as it is, That. "

The message is clear in the last scene when David drives Nils back to the village. The latter says he doesn't know the way home, and David responds that he doesn't. There is no way to go back to their old life for David or Susan after the events of the film. With "Straw dogs" coming out as the Vietnam war was still on, there was no way for American society.