A kiss is just a kiss

Alfredo, aka “Citius64” watched TV Thursday night and wasn’t happy with what he didn’t see:

Last night, on Channel 5, Televisa showed Alfonso Cuarón’s Cuarón Y tu mamá también… and censored over 25 seconds from near the ending.

It was after 11 at night, and the station permitted the racy dialog in the scene where Maribel Verdú feels around Gael Garía’s pelvis, but censured the 30 seconds in which Diego Luna and Gael García tenderly kiss.

It’s common to see on this network’s serials, shootings, blood, explosions, murders… but now they censor a kiss. What happened to all Televisa’s talk of morals? Don’t they believe it? Violence is good, but love between two men is bad. Don’t they say they are a “morally responsible” business? Not only did they censor an award-winning director, but they reinforce negative values like violence, homophobia and hatred in a country where these negative actions are all too common.

If your tender morals are offended, don’t watch the youtube video of the offending scene. Or switch to Canal Onze, the Polytechnical University Channel, or to Channel 22, the arts and culture channel, and see much more. They don’t cut their films, which tend to be semi-obscure European and South American films, but they include complete sex scenes — gay and straight. What, only foreigners do this?

This was only a kiss.