Interesting, ameeraana.
A couple of things.
One, so many things affect the presentation of something like a film, a novel, or anything for that matter.
In a film, the camera angle, the lighting, the pacing, of course the directing, all of that will influence the amount of intrigue or pathos the movie has, be it sexual arousal, laughter, terror, romance, sadness, whatever the mood which is being sought after. Even a pause. Pauses are powerful tools for the director. Have one character say a line to another and lengthen the time between the response of the other character. That can determine the strength of an emotion to great effect. And again, whether sexual, horrific, romantic, comical, or whatever, all of them rely on pauses, timing, pacing, along with a whole plethora of tricks artists such as writers and directors use to create a mood..
That's what makes some artists good and others great.
Two. There was a post by a woman regarding the film Cape Fear, the old one with Robert Mitchum. She said that he scared the hell out of her in that movie. She said his character was so terrifying that she found it hard to watch him in other roles because of his performance of that one. And I agree, his performance in Cape Fear was absolutely fantastic. He was not only mean, but was terrifying on a psychotic, even subliminal level.
Robert Deniro's performance in the re-make was good, but not disturbing. He was just a real mean guy, scary one might say, but not disturbing. Mitchum's performance in the older one was indeed 'disturbing.' Such that, if you met the guy, you'd be rattled by him after only asking directions to the mall! His was an intense and deeply disturbing character that went beneath the skin. Deniro's was just a surface swelling 'bad guy.'
Interestingly though, this same woman said that while she felt such fear of Robert Mitchum's character, she was also outrageously turned on sexually by him. She didn't understand it, how there could be both great fear and great eroticism for the same character at the same time, but there it was.
There's probably many psychological implications to be drawn from that, but that is for another discussion, I suppose.
Anyway, I think we may not have control over what we find sexually arousing. What matters, as I see it, is what we do with that arousal. If a man finds rape a turn on, he deserves no condemnation as we all have our sick little secret fantasies. I know a woman who does find violent rape erotic. It is when that man ACTS on those desires that condemnation should follow.
If a mother finds she is sexually attracted to her sixteen year old son, she can chalk it up to nothing more than simply wild fancies. Unless she tries to seduce her son. Then she should be thought of with derision and taken to task for doing such a thing.
So, morality is not what thoughts pop into your head, it's really what you do with those thoughts. That is what changes you from simply someone with wild fantasies, to an actual immoral pervert, dangerous to society.
My opinion.
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