i think the amount of violence in movies nowadays is entirely to prevelant. im watching sin city. and it just makes me angry, seeing all these mindless throwing of people into walls and kicking through the windows of cop cars. i mean, if theres oine thing this world needs less of, its violence, and here we are creating and supporting movies which only exaserbate the situation. when will the killing stop?
i agree with you but there is one more thing: if there is so many films with violence, people need it for some reason... and maybe they need it to give an outlet for negative emotions while watching and not in real life...
Sin City was very over the top. I don't like violence like that neither. However, I enjoy a realistic movie and I enjoy a good scene with violence as well. Not talking about Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris here. I have to admit, sometimes I do like movies where the violence is over the top. Those limbcutting scenes in Kill Bill for instance, or the mad killing in Natural Born Killers. I believe that if you're pretty healthy mentally there's nothing wrong with a bit violence in a movie and even in the occasional movie where it's over the top.
Well, Kill Bill has to be bloody...its Quentin... But I think the violence has numbed us, and nothing shocks us...which is kind of good because death seems all too normal which makes it easier to accept...like when my dad died it was easier to come to terms with but maybe its numbing us so much that we take war to be so normal that we can just accept a bloodbath like we do an r-rated flick... Plus, where does that leave my non-english speaking stepdad...all he does is rent action/adv movies lol...violence is universal...
A movie is a movie and is a movie, and that's all it is, a movie. The world is a violent place, sadly enough... it's better to be aware of this than to live in ignorance.
If they stopped putting violence in movies, would there be less violence in the world? Probably not. If there wasn't any violence in the world, would they stop putting violence in movies? Probably.
I've always thought that violent video games, movies and such are actually good things. They let people who are a tad more violent take their anger out on something fictional instead of acting upon it on something real.
Here's a clip from "Hillbilly Hare," a cartoon banned on TV for the past 25 years for being too violent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvCKm8HBuQ Sorry, but I think it's hysterical.
ja, cartoons are so full of violence and rough sex ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzkOW8tOZX4&mode=related&search=
Violence is a sickness that pervades mankind. Violence in the animal world is a necessity. Violence in the human world is not. Humans have a choice whether to be violent or not. Many choose to resort to it out of frustration, impatience, stupidity and sheer self indulgence. Violence in art can be used to make a point or to titilate, excite or distract. Many people are so numb to feeling that they crave violence and enjoy participating in it vicariously. This is why violence in the media is so popular. It makes people feel that they are alive. A truly human response to violence is horror or disgust. When we have lost the feeling of empathy for those on whom it is enacted, even in simulated portrayal, we have misplaced a vital part of our humanity, the very part that makes us human, the ability to feel the pain of others and to abhor it as much as our own pain. Until we rise above taking pleasure in witnessing or inflicting pain we can't honestly or seriously apply ourselves to the essential human task of making the world a better place. Like any strong generator of feeling, violence can be addictive. When someone gets a kick out of violence, it turns on certain receptors in the brain and nervous system which create their own need for continued stimulation. The first step in any addiction problem is to conciously remove yourself from the stimulant. This can be difficult at first because of the craving you have developed. In time the receptors will begin to dissipate and lose their hold and you will become aware of the feelings that you used the stimulation to supress. This is why addicted persons have to go through intense introspection so they can understand what led them to the addictive substance. These are usually personal issues that were formed very early in life or as some say, are part of one's karma that one has to deal with. Mankind is presently on a death trip. The whole world is suffering from addictive behaviors to various substances: drugs, oil, speed, power, junk food, religious dogmatism and others including violence. These addictions and the unconciousness that goes with them are gradually destroying the actual ecological environment that sustains us. If we don't pull back from our addictions on a massive scale, the natural world may reach a tipping point with widespread and devastating extinctions. Every person has the ability to change their lives and become more in tune with themselves and the real world around them. The falacy that "one person can't really make a difference" is in that making a difference starts with oneself and that is how we must change the world, by changing ourselves, person by person. Cutting yourself loose from violence and those who promote it is one very important step.
Something that continues to surprise me is how desensitized we've become to violence against humans. I've seen <i>300</i> twice now and each time I can watch the heads and arms and bodies being chopped to bits, but when the elephants go over the cliff and the rhino gets shot, I think, "Awww, they killed him!" In <i>The Secret Window</i> I got more frightened by seeing the dead dog than any other scene in the movie (not that it was frightening to begin with). Abuse against animals has become so diabolical that we are immediately struck with a sense of fear or sadness when we see something happen to them. But the random guy gets his head chopped off? Meh.
Crazylegs and Nada, you two are quite right. And now for some Gandhi quotes xD "I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for the rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law-to the strength of the spirit.... The rishis who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence were greater geniuses than Newton. They were themselves known the use of arms, they realized their uselessness, and taught a weary world that its salvation lay not through violence but through nonviolence." "The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. Honesty, they say in English, is the best policy. But, in terms of nonviolence, it is not mere policy. Policies may and do change. Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued in face of violence raging around you. Nonviolence with a nonviolent man is no merit. In fact it becomes difficult to say whether it is nonviolence at all. But when it is pitted against violence, then one realizes the difference between the two. This we cannot do unless we are ever wakeful, ever vigilant, ever striving. The only thing lawful is nonviolence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made law but according to the law made by Nature for man." "It is my firm conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence." "I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him."
Something that struck me weird though -- Now I can't afford cable/satellite/whatever, so we just have rabbit ears, but they're not that great and the regular channels we get are pretty much craptacular. So in essence, I don't watch a lot of TV. So I was watching ER at my mother's place one evening for no comprehendible reason (I don't much like that show, it depresses me) and there was a rather lukewarm love scene -- the undressing, the heavy make-out, the tossing on the bed, blah blah blah. Craziest thing was, I was like, "Whoa, they show this stuff on TV now?!" Made me realize just how long it's been since I sat down and watched prime time television. To everyone else, this might've been just whatever, but to me, who hadn't watched television for any amount of time in probably three years, this was HOT. It's probably the same with violence.
