for the uncut version, citing abhorrent content that offended community standards. Modified Approval (April 2011): A heavily edited version, with approximately three to four minutes of footage removed , was granted an State-Level Intervention (August 2011):

Spasojević has always defended the film as a political allegory for the treatment of Serbia by powerful political forces – an extreme metaphor for the violation of the Serbian people. However, for Australian censors and law enforcement, the allegory was irrelevant. Only the content mattered.