'Rape film' released uncut

[Gato_Solo]

My question is, why would you seek out more and more violent movies? When is it enough?

Sure, I watched "Faces of Death" when I was a teenager but most kids seek out movies like that for shock-value. Just like A Clockwork Orange.

Umm...A Clockwork Orange, for all of it's violence, was meant to show the folly of some forms of psychology and conditioning on human beings. A social commentary on rehabilitation, as it were. Besides...I've only seen it once, and it stuck with me because of the lesson of forced morality.

I have a morbid side, sure. Everyone does to a degree. There's people who slow down at car accidents to get a good look and people who search the internet for the Rotten.com type sites to get a fix.
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I get pissed at people like that. My morbid side tends to stick with 'gallows humor' rather than visual stimulation.

And then there are people who would be highly entertained by a 9 minute rape scene. In my opinion, that's not something to gloat about. I'm somewhere in between, perhaps because of the EMS background, more towards the Rotten but not quite at the point where I seek out violent movies because they're violent.

No comment, because I watched A Clockwork Orange. I didn't enjoy the rape scenes, but it was a sad social commentary about runaway dysfunction.

 

[greenfreak]

As an adult I'm aware that it's not just a "violent movie" but as a teen, it was less about the message and more about shock value.

 

[Gonz]

My question is, why would you seek out more and more violent movies? When is it enough?

Careful Trish, you're treading into conservative waters

 

[greenfreak]

Labeling everyone is a pretty short-sighted way to live your life Gonz. But I guess it's easier to organize everyone into hermetically sealed packages than to really find out who they are.

 

[BeardofPants]

 

[Bobby Hogg]

The problem with A Clockwork Orange is that its protagonist was extremely charismatic and the film pretty hilarious.

I haven't seen Irreversible yet, but as a fan of good films I'm interested. I've heard it is pretty good. Apparently there is a graphic depiction of a man getting his head mashed in by a fire extinguisher, too, which also came in for some criticism.

The question is whether graphic scenes of violence are more harmful to the viewing public than throw-away scenes of violence which show no real suffering or consequences for the people involved.