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Buncrana has said ‘down with this sort of thing’ to the upcoming film adaptation of 50 Shades Of Grey, while the film’s distributors have stopped the film from being shown in the town anyway.
A spokesperson for the film’s distributors has revealed that the cinema in Buncrana was turned down to show the movie because, “St. Mary’s Hall is a one screen cinema and cannot play a film for 7 consecutive days.”
Mary Doherty is a Christian campaigner in the Donegal town and earlier described her relief that Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson’s tale of sado-masochistic ardour won’t be dirtying the minds of the local parishioners.
She told the Inishowen Independent: “The whole film is purely about sexual content and there is so much sexual violence in it. It couldn’t possibly happen under the church, they couldn’t possibly put a film like this out.”
Credit: The Irish Mirror
Pouring scorn on the notion that people can decide for themselves what the boundaries of good taste are, and thinking only of the children, she added: “People do a lot of things out of curiosity and they will see this and will think it is acceptable and okay and that there is nothing wrong with this.
“It shouldn’t be shown anywhere, it is bad enough that these things are on the Internet and now they are bringing it to the cinema.”
Take that, you soft-porn-craving-divil-worshipping-pain-au-chocolat-eating libertarians!
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