Violence and classification- Ken Park

In the role of a BBFC examiner, I imagined that I was requested by the distributor of the film Ken Park for a certificate with a lower age rating, Giving examples of three incidents/scenes I would cut/reframe. Ken Park directed and written by the controversial duo Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, creators of Kids, Gummo and Spring Breakers has received an overall rating of 18 with some exceptions including being banned in Malaysia.

My first request as a BBFC examiner would be to cut the scene where a dogmatic father upon finding his daughter having raunchy and unsimulated sex beats the boy almost to death. My reason for requesting this scene to be cut is that I believe it is the most disturbing scene of the film, that it is unnecessarily explicit in showing both sex and violence and that it adds nothing to either the narrative or the artistic aspect of the film.

My second request would be to cut the use of profanity by at least half, the word f**k is used over a hundred times.

My last request would be to reframe or cut shots including nudity by 60% because mostly the nudity appears only as a tool to 'shock' the audience and depicts an unrealistically negative and unhealthy view of sex. Ken Park has an almost impossibly high incidents of nudity and sex throughout in continuously bizarre and disturbing ways with often underage participants including one scene where A boy is seen masturbating to a tennis match, with a cord around his neck, his erect penis is shown & he masturbates to ejaculation, which is shown.

As a distributor, I would not even after these alterations give the film a lower classification however I may lift the banning in Malaysia.