Banning a movie instantly makes it more notorious—people want what they can't have, after all. And most organizations tend to do it only in extreme circumstances, with movies so violent or sexually explicit that they'd test the mettle of even the most jaded viewer. So it's odd that a relatively tame studio effort like George Romero's Land of the Dead ended up being banned in Ukraine—especially when places like Quebec and the U.K. classified the movie as being suitable for teens.
The context is important to consider, but it raises more questions than it answers. According to a writeup in Variety, the movie was banned for its portrayal of cannibalism—not because its scenes of humans getting devoured were especially gory, but due to concerns that such content would bring up negative memories surrounding the Holodomor, a wave of famine that struck the nation in 1933, killing millions.
To be clear, Land of the Dead was released in 2005, some 72 years after the events of the Ukrainian famine. There's no doubt that the Holodomor was a horrifying time in the nation's history, but is Land of the Dead, a movie that takes place in post-apocalyptic Pennsylvania, really going to open those old wounds?
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