For fans of heavy R rated films

Was reading up on the great Korean actress, Moon So-ri. The year after Oasis she was in a movie entitled A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003). From the description it sounds pretty graphic. So for y'all who like 'em hot & heavy, this might be for you...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_Lawyer%27s_Wife

Why, thank you for the heads-up. That’s definitely me.

I am shamefully adding this to my watch list. I can only hope that Captain Terror won't judge me for this moment of weakness (he has enough others to choose from).

Tsk tsk tsk

I honestly don't get the "heavy R" vibe from that description. Sounds on par with something like Damage or A Short Film About Love.

Not enough nun masturbation for me.

It's fine. I made the mistake of googling Doris Wishman on my work computer today, so today I'm mad at Crummy, not you.

Rocks phone just gave him a little nudge.

lol


You got Chesty Morgan cookies all over your work computer now.

Can't believe I'm being judged here for my superior taste.


Let me scuttle shamefully back to my weirdly depressing Roger Watkins pornos.

After 50 years, The Devils is still more transgressive than the hardest Rs today.


Except, maybe Dogtooth

The correct term is nunsterbation.

I'm trying to think of a fairly modern movie that is legitimately transgressive, and I'm drawing blanks, even though I know I have definitely seen a couple (not many).


Lukas Moodysson's Hole In My Heart is probably the most upsetting of any I've seen, but it dodged any rating, and I don't know if it is so much transgressive as just against all hope for humanity.

I'll check out that South Korean movie, but is there a source I can watch it from that has English subtitles?

At the risk of summoning Stu, I think there's stuff in both Hereditary and Midsommar that qualifies.

I've seen some recent stuff that disturbed me or made me depressed (Nightingale, for one), but I haven't seen anything I'd call transgressive on a "Divine eating dog poo" level. Considering that film is now 50 years old, I wonder if it's even possible to shock at that level now.

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I think that depends on which standard you're using for the former; if you're comparing it to other, singular films at random, I suppose it would qualify as transgressive next to a lot of 'em, but as far as Horror movies go specifically, I don't think it particularly "transgresses" by the standards of its own genre, IMO (although that isn't actually one of the reasons why I'm not a fan of it...)

Never understood the big deal about Dogtooth. What’s transgressive there? It’s Wittgenstein’s language games.

I guess we could start with the incest and cat-killing.

But there's nothing in the description of Good Lawyer's Wife that comes close to any of that, making it not really a film that requires any additional audience restrictions. Sounds like a good movie (I hold Damage and A Short Film About Love in high regard), but not one I'd personally consider "heavy R" category.

I would argue both are as old as the world and became ‘taboo’ fairly recently. But fair enough, otherwise. Damage is great.

How about Happiness for transgression and an unpleasant look at humanity.