All copies I have found for sale (in the USA) and the DVD I watched from Netflix, were 125 minutes. The version advertised at the official site is 125 minutes.
All were rated merely "R". There is no mention of an "Unrated" version that I have found.
Is there 131 minutes version? Out there somewhere?
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That seems to be the version I got from NetFlix. Unless there are TWO "Unrated Director's Cut"'s. Also, Amazon says it is 130.
Let me rephrase that.
Has anyone actually ever seen a 131 minutes version? And if you did, are you certain there are any differences from it and the 125 minute version? Other than some extra padding for the titles at the beginning and end?
Incidentally, I just saw the "R" rated version, also 125 minutes. The only difference I noticed, was seeing nothing but Huppert's face when she entered the porn both.
I don't think that Turd Ferguson owns a 131 min. vers. I don't think there is one. I just watched the KINO ed. And on the back it says 125 min. And on the front it says "Unrated Directors Cut" at the bottom. Nothing was blurred out like others have complained. The magazine covers and the Porn Booth scenes are all intact.So, I challenge anyone to say that they saw a 131 min. vers. And tell us what the difference is/was I Kill Kids!
shareThe one I watched at the cinema was billed as 130 minutes.
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125 to 131 min is about +4%, so it makes sense that it's due to a different frame rate.
There are some problematic scenes, but I guess most would be blurred instead of cut out. And it's really hard to cut 5 to 6 minutes from a movie, that would alter the the meaning considerably.
Just one thing: PAL would be shorter than NTSC.
FILM standard was 24fps since the 20's or something.
NTSC doesn't change the run time coming from FILM, the ~30fps are achieved by duplicating certain information (8 half frames - odd/even fields - for 4 full frames are recombined so that 5 full frames - 10 odd/even-fields - come out. Sequence 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 is then shown as 1-2-3-4-3-6-5-8-7-8).
To convert 24fps FILM to 25fps PAL it would have to be sped up, so it would be shorter.
You can get professional digital cameras for 24,25,30fps and more now. So you can no longer be sure if an European film maker would chose 24 or 25fps for the source material.
Then PAL would be unaltered and NTSC would run slower, would last longer.
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Thank you, ichbinsisyphos. That was a very informative reply.
I am glad you were able to break away from your rock for a while, and straighten us out! ;^)
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