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Thursday 23 January 2014

The Wolf of Wall Street- Why it was banned in Kenya

The film by Martin Scorcese featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street has been banned in Kenya. This has raised sudden interest on the movie by a lot of people evidenced in the social media where the topic has trended for several days on twitter.
The government via Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB)has banned the movie due to its extreme graphical nudity scenes, sex, use of vulgar language, alcohol, prostitution, drug abuse among others.
They reviewed the movie and they thus said it was not fit for consumption in our society as it was immoral.
They said that the movie is giving glory to prostitution, drug use, promiscuity and other vices.
It is said that the movie contains very graphic scenes of sex, nudity, homosexuality, some forms of violence and drug use.
Its use of vulgar and profane language is also of note. There are between 506 and 569 counts of the usage of the word 'Fuck' which is by so far the most used in a non-documentary mainstream film to date. The director is even quoted saying that he had to edit some scenes in order to reduce the profane word count and even some scenes so as they avoid getting X rated.
The summarized plot of the Film is as follows:
Leonardo DiCaprio starring as Belfort starts working at a successful brokerage firm in the Wall Street where his boss advices him to lead a lifestyle of sex, drug abuse and total debauchery if he is to be successful. The firm fails after the Black Monday and he is left jobless.
Together with his friend they start a firm that is known to engage in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 90s.
The boss and the other employees of the firm are known to engage in a lifestyle characterized by sex, drugs, lavish parties, alcoholism in their homes and at the work place.
Belfort starts being promiscuous and cheats on his wife with several prostitutes.
He also becomes a cocaine addict.
The firm becomes under the watch list of the FBI and after a while they are arrested and the firm closed.

The film has also been banned in Malaysia and Nepal.
Despite its controversial nature, the film is doing well and is riding high on the criticism it has got.

I wonder if the Kenyan people will abide by the law and cease from watching the film.

PS: Some may have even watched it due to curiosity generated from the ban.

 

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