Does anyone find the viewing of violence (film violence only of course) "fun" despite how you may rationalize your liking of the film? Critics say viewing or creating violence in art form has a "cathartic or dissipating effect...providing acceptable outlets for anti-social impulses".
shareThere are some movies where the violence can be fun.
However, in exploitation films like this or I Spit On Your Grave, the violence is meant to shock and horrify, to show the real effects of violence.
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I tend to agree with the critics in this case. Whenever I'm angry I can just watch a violent film like OLDBOY and feel the catharsis wash over me. Ancient Greek tragedy was created for this purpose; to expose horrendous events to an audience so that they may experience a rejuvination for life. The key difference, in my opinion, is how the cinematic violence is handled by the director.
shareIn certain ways, violence can make a person get over their madness. Like after seeing the scene in "THE DEPARTED" where Costigan bashes some thug's head with a hatrack, I was sitting in the theatre thinking "Man, that was a load off." (Not to mention the fact that it was a damn good film.)
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Actually, I feel 50/50 about the cathartic violence sometimes.
shareThe aestheticization of violence in high culture art or mass media is the depiction of violence in a manner that is "stylistically excessive in a significant and sustained way" so that audience members are able to connect references from the "play of images and signs" to artworks, genre conventions, cultural symbols, or concepts.
By the way, if you use a sophisticated word, spell it right....
Anyone who says violence can't be fun clearly hasn't seen Dead-Alive.
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You have to remember that this is the extreme of Grindhouse. Grindhouse is not the actual type of cinema, but it was the types of theatres that these independant extreme movies were shown in. Old burlesque theatres were turned into movie houses that showed not only the extreme violent, but the sexploitation, blaxploitation, Hong Kong Cinema, etc. I remember as a kid in my neighboorhood we had the "b" movie house, which is what a lot of these Grindhouse theatres were also called. My older brother would often sneak me into the theatre to see a lot of the Kung Fu and Hong Kong cinema. I was too young for the other stuff. It's hard to filter through all that is Grindhouse, and not all of is ultra-violent. If you want Grindhouse that is not so extreme look to movies like Lone Wolf and Cub series, the movies of Sonny Chiba where he plays the character Honzo(sp?) These do have violence and a fair amount of blood, but they are not as heavy on the torture violence and the sexploitation. A fun Grindhouse movie is Russ Meyers' Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and there copious amounts of sci-fi movies from the Grindhouse period that are cool, also a lot of the Biker and Car movies from this period are good, like Dirty Larry, Crazy Mary, etc. Really look through this stuff and go for what really appeals to you, there are so many different types of Grindhouse that you just need to have fun with it.
shareAction movies = fun violence
Ilsa, Salo, I Spit on your grave = horror violence (meaning unpleasant)
At least that's how i feel.
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