Cleanflix

Hey, all you movie fans! - In this day and age of over-the-top violence, gore, sex, and profanity in films - Are you really ready for "sanitized" cinema??

I mean, I hope you think the same as I do here - 'Cause I cannot see the point, at all, of watching a film like Caligula (with all of its sex edited out), or 28 Days Later (with all of its gore edited out) - Can you?

But, apparently, in the state of Utah, the ultra-conservative, Mormonized folks there want to watch these sorts of "sanitized" films so badly that for 8 years (2000-2008) (before copyright infringement laws were being challenged in court) it was, indeed, a million-dollar business.

Competently written and directed by Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi - "Cleanflix" is a very insightful and informative documentary that offers the viewer a well-balanced argument for or against sanitized cinema (whose story inevitably escalates into quite an eye-opening scandal).

*Trivia note* - In the film The Wolf of Wall Street the word f*ck is spoken 569 times. So, that means, within its 180-minute running time, that one word is uttered about 3x a minute.

It seems that in the state of Utah (at the beginning of the 21st century) the Mormon influence was so strong that there was actually a big demand for "sanitized" mainstream movies there.

Yeah. We're talking here about movies like Caligula, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 28 Months Later, etc., etc. being carefully edited of all of their violence, profanity, and gore and viewers actually wanting to see them this way. (Go figure!)

"Cleanflix" takes a close-up look at the rise and fall of "sanitized" movies which, for a time, was a multi-million dollars business in states such as Utah.

All-in-all - This documentary was an interesting view, weighing the pros and cons of having cleanflix.