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how sick are we, and we don't know it?

posted 3 years ago by 123Guy (7845)
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(take this with a grain of sea salt. I'm aware that it is "Fun" and "Exciting" to be scared by a movie)

MEANWHILE, at your therapist's office...

Shrink: and what is your favorite kind of movie?

You: Oh, HORROR films, definitely! I absolutely love waiting for the next new one to come out so I can pay $15 on purpose choose to sit in a theater to enjoy observing some sick, depraved, insane killer, dismember, behead, stab, slice, kick, punch, rip other people's guts to shreds.... breaking bones is neat too when the part bends backwards and the guy or girl screams in unimaginable agony, crying for their life, before their life is snuffed out completely.
It's fun eating popcorn and watching someone drive over a body, killing them, and the car goes "clunk-a lump" and sometimes intestines or something shoots out.
Nothing beats a head being cut in half and seeing all the detailed blood, brains, eyes squirt out and fall all over the place. It just feels like home. GREAT entertainment. Stabbing repeatedly, cutting off fingers, buckets of blood spraying out, people coughing up blood with their throat slit, all great for entertainment. I mean, none of it is real, so no harm, no foul.
What do you think, doc? Do I have any problems?

Shrink: Oh, no. You are perfectly fine.

What do you think?
Is that perfectly fine?
Does it sound healthy? Or like any real serial killer?
Have we all been desensitized and no longer realize it?

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 3 years ago

Movies are fiction. Unless someone can't distinguish a film from reality, there shouldn't be a problem.

[–] 123Guy (7845) 3 years ago

Right. But looking at that doctor discussion, is this a healthy mindset, whether fiction or not?

[–] 102000 (6352) 3 years ago

Sounds like something right up my alley. Love horror movies and I will happily munch on popcorn while watching gore and carnage.

[–] 123Guy (7845) 3 years ago

if that doctor interview was a serial killer, or average movie watcher, does it sound similar yet still healthy?
We are what we eat?

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 3 years ago

Good thing I’m a cannibal then!

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13204) 3 years ago

Yes, it's a reflection of a sick and decadent society.

At least in ancient Rome they actually killed people for fun. In Western societies fools sit on their asses and fantasize about it, too chickenshit to do it.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

The difference between watching lions eat political prisoners and actors appear to get mangled on screen is the difference between dead humans and live humans who've been well-paid for their fake screams of agony!

So I don't have moral qualms with the making of horror films, but I don't like them myself and doubt I'd ever be close friends with someone who did. What the hell kind of fun is that, suspending disbelief and watching people appear to get mangled.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13204) 3 years ago

However, film is art. The Romans and Greeks weren't watching cheap plays about psychos hacking up victims. And they weren't sculpting decapitated bodies in marble. They produced great art. We produce "Friday the 13th Part VIII".

I would guess we have more dead crime victims per capita than they had victims of staged animal maulings.

[–] 123Guy (7845) 3 years ago

back then, let's say when art was new, maybe they just hadn't yet discovered that morbid stuff could make huge profits? once they started with gore, saw peoples reactions, it became more tolerated.

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 3 years ago

All I watch is things about murder. I just like a mystery and a good story.

I did once visit a true life gore site and there was a video on there of 2 late teen males torturing a man to death. They were rich from somewhere in Eastern Europe I think, and thought they could get away with it. It was horrific, I turned it off and never went back there.

So, made up murder is ok to me, but actually seeing how depraved some folk are is really disturbing 😳

[–] 123Guy (7845) 3 years ago

this is a very interesting perspective and I totally get it. I've seen a few bloody films, I know it is fake - not really fond of that unless it serves a great plot - and some real life stuff that I absolutely never want to witness again. but I ask myself, "why would I want to witness it as fake also??"

I have literally fully stopped watching all zombie and horror films because I would have nightmares sometimes that I could not control. Now, away from that, I NEVER have nightmares, and my dreams are all mostly fantastic!!!

[–] sslssg (35203) 3 years ago

Horror movies can be good for anxiety. It's something that you can control. If it's too much you turn it off, or turn on a light. The horrors that we experience in the real world or even in our own minds don't have a remote.

I have watched some of the most disturbing films out there. Sometimes even more than once. What I cannot watch are real videos. I watched the 3 guys one hammer video, or like a minute of it, and that was way too much for me. I find it amusing, and revolting that some of the largest spectator events in olden times were executions.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78637) 3 years ago

Watch the evening News, that’s the real horror

I saw a young Ukrainian Woman with her leg blown off the other day on the TV…’horror’ movies are escapist fun compared to real life