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In Reply to: Anyone see The Tin Drum?.... posted by Mrs. Piggy on November 04, 2002 at 19:40:23:
"The Tin Drum" is classified as child pornography according to the community standards established in Oklahoma City and you can be imprisoned for possession. Local police used Gestapo-type tactics to raid video rental stores and obtained rental lists to arrest current renters.I'm not making this up.
BTW, great film.
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and almost rented it, just to see if my next door neighbor cops would arrest me! BTW, the federal judge that ruled that it was NOT child porn is a personal acquaintance, and I know he must have found the whole situation rather humorous.
I gave at the office!
For a brief time back in 1979 or 1980 the movie was shown on HBO until it was quickly pulled due to the suggestive nature of it's content; I thought the movie was excellent, but it was controversial over here from the get-go. OTOH, even suggesting that The Tin Drum ventures into the realm of kiddy porn is a real stretch (i.e., for anyone but the most ardent uptight holy-rollers) since the chrarcter of the little boy continues to mature mentally in spite of the fact that his physical appearance is stunted in response to the horror of growing up Nazi Germany.AuPh
You CAN legally possess it in Oklahoma City--for now.
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