A scene in which the young boy undresses and joins her in the bathtub caused controversy for its pedophilic overtones. This film is about a young widow who meets a 10 year old boy claiming to be her reincarnated husband. Nicole Kidman's character appears to take a bath with a 10-year-old boy in Birth. The scene caused many viewers to protest the need for such a lengthy torture scene. Monica Belluci's character has just left a club when she's accosted by a ruthless sadist who rapes and then beats her to a pulp. The brutal and agonisingly long rape scene in this French movie takes place in an alley.
Here's a few that have caused controversy.
These sequences have gained a notoriety of their own, either for being too bloody, or too sexual, or too freaking weird. Over the years there have been some movie scenes that's captured the collective imagination for the all the wrong reasons.