Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Wow! The first shot, when the Lieutenant snorts cocaine
after dropping his kids off at school, told me that the movie was going to be
about a corrupt cop. From the very beginning of the film I knew why it was
rated NC-17. Just Ten minutes into the
film and all you see is drugs, tits and alcohol. The film Bad Lieutenant (1992) defines a stereotypical NC-17 Rated movie and
is also very similar to Quentin Tarantino’s films.
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Many R rated movies have drugs and alcohol in them but this
one has drugs after every other scene.
For example there are multiple scenes where lieutenant is either
sniffing cocaine or drinking while driving.
Another example is when he is at the bar watching the Mets game.
Although he isn’t physically drinking alcohol he is in a place that represents
alcohol. All the Lieutenant ever does it sniff cocaine and drink. There is even
a scene where he shoots up heroin. When
I think of an NC-17 I think of a movie all about sex and drugs, and the amount
of them in this movie defines it as a stereotypical NC-17.
The movie is very degrading to the
Christian faith. There is a shot in the film where a nun was raped in a
church. This is an extremely
inappropriate subject to place in a film.
There are also multiple scenes where Christianity is involved with
drugs. For example when the lieutenant
goes to get money from his drug dealer, there is a blanket that has a picture
of Jesus face on it. There is another scene where the Lieutenant is in the
church begging for forgiveness and he imagines Jesus, but it is actually a
black guy. If this film were rated R it may have caused controversy because it
is very racist and degrading to the Christian faith.
The movie itself is about a corrupt
policeman, who is essentially living the epitome of life. He is an alcoholic, has a drug addiction,
gambling addiction and is extremely depressed. He also lets the two people who
raped the nun go. The subject of the
movie is what inevitably defines the film as a stereotypical NC-17.
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