taboo

Megan Is Missing and the Endless Allure of the Taboo

If you put a big red button in front of someone and tell them not to push the button, all that person is going to want to do is push the damn thing.  So then to the strange case of Megan is Missing, a low budget exploitation movie shot in 2006, given a limited release in 2011 which is now suddenly trending due to some high profile TikTok users talking about how utterly horrible it is and apparently warning others off with hyperbolic statements such as: @bella.clare please watch this film at your own risk. It is something i will…
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Tehran Taboo

In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to ?restore? her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. [Kino Lorber]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 14, 2018
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