As frustrating as it can be to watch films go through the ratings process here in North America when they are trying to deal with controversial subjects I find that, at the very least, I can at least understand the arguments when the ratings board places restrictions on something. I frequently think that they're wrong, but I can at least understand where they're coming from. But this? Not a clue ...
Commissioned as part of the Guimaras: Shortfilms from the Oil Spill project in the Phillipines - a project revolving around what has been described as the worst oil spill in Phillipine history - Khavn's Toxic Mango has been hit with the dreaded X rating by the MTRCB, meaning that it has been blocked from airing on the television program that commissioned it and very likely will never be screened in any other outlet anywhere. The fatal sin? You tell me, because I'm not seeing it. This is a pretty straightforward morality tale that plays on the Garden of Eden story - albeit a modified version with a sludge zombie and fatal intercourse - and is not explicit in the least. It boggles the mind ...
What's the big deal with this amateur video? I agree with the X-Rating: It's not for television.
Maybe because it's not that good.
Good or not isn't really the issue. When a ratings board - and this is not just a TV board, this is the board for everything in the country - slaps something that benign with a rating that labels it obscene something is very wrong.
Perhaps it's the images that look like she's menstruating all over all the men in the village as she screws them.