This scene not only made some very good points which a lot of people should listen to and think about, especially those kinds of people trying to control what people see and telling us sex is dirty and shouldn't be seen. But the filmmaking techniques used to produce this sequence force home the point even more. Larry Flynt delivers this speech to a gathering of the Americans for a Free Press after just being released from prison, where he had been jailed for obscenity charges. Larry Flynt of course is the publisher of HUSTLER magazine, and back in the 70's faced numerous counts of ridiculous obscenity charges, but in this brilliant and powerful scene, Woody Harrelson, as Flynt, stands in front of a huge screen which projects images which go back and forth between pictures of nude women and grisly scenes of violence. His point is that people get Pulitzer Prizes for taking a photograph of someone being murdered when the act of murder is illegal. Sex, on the other hand, is legal, but taking a picture of two people engaged in the act of sex, or even a woman's naked body, will land you in jail. And he's asking -- what's more obscene? Men marching off to war to die for a cause only the politicians believe in or the image of a Vietnamese girl running naked after a bomb has exploded -- these images people don't seem to mind seeing in their magazines, on TV, etc. But how about an image of a nude woman -- how can that be obscene compared to acts of murder?

The speech is a very well written piece of cinema, and a lot of good points can be learned by it. It deals strongly with America's stigma and problem with sex and nudity, and asks us what is better -- sex or war? When Flynt poses that final question, the screen behind him shows us an image of an atomic bomb exploding. Real powerful cinema from a very powerful movie.