BSA103 Out of the Blue Censorship.

Director: Robert Sarkies.
Chief Censor: Bill Hastings.

"Out of the Blue" depicts the true story of a 1990 massacre that took place in the town of Aramoana, New Zealand. The film was released to the Toronto Film Festival in 2006, but people expressed some concerns over the rating of the film in New Zealand.

The classification Office realised that the adult New Zealander's would remember the events and may know or be someone who was affected by them, therefore potentially making the film more upsetting and traumatic for those viewers.

Two consultations were held for the film. The first attended by nine people who had either been related to victims or injured during the shooting, the second attended by twenty-one members of the Aramoana community.

Many of the people thought that the film should be released with age restrictions in the cinema, but not widely distributed on DVD. Others felt that the film should be restricted but that they themselves wouldn't watch it. One of the main issues that the community had with the film was they felt that the massacre had put the town under the view of the public spotlight, meaning that they had to re-live the event every time an anniversary came around or another film was made about it.

Initially, Robert Sarkies considered the consulting of locals about the movie to be "PC gone mad". The Chief Censor disagreed saying that they had to have a balance between being fair to both the film maker and the film audience, but also to consider that the film dealt with matters that were "injurious to public good" and it would be the relatives and people of Aramoana who were most affected.

The final restriction placed on the film was that of an R15 rating. The descriptive note "contains violence and content that may disturb". was put alongside the rating. Sarkies agreed with this decision because he felt that this ment that the film could be shown to senior high school classes stating, "fifteen year olds are old enough to comprehend this film."

The classification decision that gave "Out of the Blue" the R15 rating justified their decision by saying;

"The film is likely to present violence to teenagers in a new light. Rather than the sanitised and glorified violence often depicted in popular mainstream productions, Out of the Blue presents violence in a realistic manner. The random, unspectacular nature of violence is captured, as are the devastating repercussions it has for good, honest, real people."
(Office of Film and Literature Classification, 2006)

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