Tuesday, October 11, 2011
America Desensitized?
I am an avid horror fan, but these days I just cant stomach the garbage be produced by the film industry. To me horror should be cerebral, not all this chopping people up in a dark forest mess. Have Americans become so desensitized that we constantly need our entertainment to be more and more graphic just to get a thrill? Its disgusting. These people clearly are not good writers if it takes blood and gore to capture their audience. A good horror film does not need to be graphic in order to be good. In fact some of the greatest (in my opinion of course) horror movies have had little to no violence or gore. For example Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...one of the scariest movies I have ever seen! And to this very day I am still thoroughly freaked out when I see a large number of birds perched in one location. Another great film, Nosferatu. Amazing movie. I just cannot comprehend what has lead to the deterioration of the horror flick. Not only are they gruesome, most of them don't even have a decent plot or story line. How is it possible that kids-in-woods-have-sex-get-slaughtered is still selling tickets? Aside from film, even television has become sex, sex, and more sex, with a dollop of violence on the side. Talk shows used to be about talking now its about "Is My Husband My Sisters Baby Daddy?" really? People are truly this ignorant? What happened to family shows like The Wonder Years and Family Matters? Families today are sitting around watching crap like The Secret Life of an American Teenager and wondering why their kids are so messed up. Really? You don't see the connection? We are products of the things we take in. If we take in garbage we in turn are going to release garbage for someone else to take in creating a cycle of ignorance.
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The sad part is that if you look at our behavior when it comes to films like you talk of, we display all the typical behaviors of someone addicted....and most addictions work like this....we get to liking a certain something cause it gives us a high, but after awhile we become desensitized to the same level of excitement, so we have to up the dosage....and keep upping it, and so on till we are so deep in addiction we are obviously disturbed and Dependant on our addiction. I fear that we aren't to our plateau either yet...I fear that not only will we have films with open, very graphic sexual acts and violence, but with todays technology I can see the potential for a program where you can enter into a virtual world and become the bad guy in the film...you get to do whatever you wish with your boss, or that snobby girl at school that won't give you the time of day....THAT potential scares me more than any horror film.
ReplyDeleteWow. I certainly never took a deep look into the future we are headed into. But if something of that nature were to happen that would be truely horrendous. At what point will the virtual reality not be enough? And then what will happen?
ReplyDeleteWell, unfortunetly, it is only a short hop, skip and jump from virtual reality to true reality, and if you go off the addiction pattern idea, typically the deeper you get into an addiction, the faster to switch dosage...or switch from one thing to another...so I fear that IF we get to the point of a program I described, then it will be a very short time before we see people taking it to true reality and not thinking twice about it....we are already on the path, just go to addictinggames.com or bored.com or any similar site and you will find first person, scenario specific violent "games" where you can take your anger out on a virtual boss or gf.
ReplyDeleteHopefully there are more people out there who are seeing this pattern, and hopefully we all take the intative to start reversing what is happening you know. Teach our kids, who teach their kids and hope there are more people out there without addictive behavior than we think or can see on the surface.
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