My girlfriend hates movies like "Saw" or "Hostel". What do you think about?
Submitted 202 days ago by selknam
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| Encourage some sick people to do horrible things (what she thinks) | |
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| 7 votes 12% | |
| There're already people doing that kind of things (what I think) | |
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| It's just entertainment like any other movie | |
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Get a new girl friend.
As far as I know, in "Saw" the main character actually had some reason for putting people into his traps, whereas in "Hostel" they were just torturing people for fun. So it is unfair to put both movies on the same shelf. Looking wider, however, I think that the newest trend of "torture horror" is disgusting - there are no scares, instead we are supposed to watch people suffering for two hours. That is not normal. But I cannot vote for both movies the same way.
Try not watching a speck...not one iota...of media of any kind for a month. Then watch those movies again.
Gore is gore, it gets some people all het up. It is not likely to encourage others to do it, but it does desensitize us to violence.
If you don't agree, here is a very simple experiment. Quit watching TV and movies, and reading books, newspapers, etc., with violence for three months. Then watch something you thought of as not particularly violent at the beginning of your experiment. There is a good chance you will be shocked at what you considered not violent.
And yes, I have done so. I now permanently avoid hyper-=violent stuff, as I have no wich to become desensitized again.
I'm one of those desensitized people. What woke me up to the reality of the horror on our screens was a book called Half of a Yellow Sun, about civil war in Nigeria. To read the accounts of what people infliceted on one another - it just makes you stop and think.
Yes, it does. And to find it entertaining...that is very disturbing. I don't know why people defend seeing death and dismemberment as entertaining.