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Add to FavoritesMovies are an art form and as such they must represent the vision of the artists involved whether or not the entire audience morally approves of what they represent. If an artist's vision involves scenes of gore then that should be allowed to be shown in a movie. Gore makes most people uncomfortable and is a way for a director to connect a film intensely to its audience. There are many great paintings on the walls of museums that depict scenes of extreme gore but they are still considered highly regarded fine works of art.
Theres is no hard evidence to support the fact that watching gory movies makes a normal person commit real violent acts. Most people know how to discern fantasy from reality and in the case of children it is the duty of the parents to regulate what their child watches and also to discuss and clarify any questions the child might have. The people that lash out and commit violent acts in society do so because they are extremely isolated or feel they have no other choice. Of course there is an extremely small percentage of people in society who enjoy the physical suffering of others and would even actually act on their desires. These are the type of people that become serial killers and they suffer from a social disease that was most likely brought on in childhood from some traumatic event in their life. They are mentally sick and need help in order to deal with themselves and the world in a productive way.
Censorship of gore in movies is not the answer to any problem in society. There will always be people who have a desire to watch gory media and there will always be those who oppose it. The market will dictate whether gore is successful in the media.
Gore is a part of life just like any other and it will be represented in movies. Sheltering ourselves from gore will not make us better people, it will just make us more ignorant of the uncomfortable realities of life. If you watched front line battle footage of the war in Iraq would you contemplate what was happening and why or would you simply dismiss it as "too gory"? It is important to represent gore in movies because it reminds us that these things do in fact exists in our lives whether we like it or not.
Watching extremely gory media is still less traumatic than actually experiencing gore in your own life. There is no film that can match the intensity of fighting in a war or being an ER surgeon. In the case of the surgeon, he or she must be desensitized to gore in order to perform a surgery that may save someones life. Because a doctor understands the human body they can easily overcome the shock of a gory situation and perform the necessary tasks to remedy it.
Sure there are movies that rely completely on gore and gross-out factor to draw an audience. If there is a market for these types of movies then someone is going to capitalize on that market whether you approve of it morally or not. This will always be the case in a free marketplace.
We as consumers of media have a choice in what we watch and no one can force you to watch any gory media that you do not want to. If you do not approve of gore in movies then you should stop supporting it with your money and your time.
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Gore, blood and guts, nauseating scenes. They are supposed to be thrillers. These movies are supposed to be entertainment? How could one be pleased with the visual effects that only movies can portray? At least with a horror story written in a book uses the imagination of the readers, who often doesn't care about the author's purpose. Regarding the cinema, the author's purpose is to generally please and entertain others. In the case of the horror fill, pleasing the mentally deranged person, is perhaps how they are entertained. How can one even look at the violence that is on the screen? Can one follow the plot, the purpose, or the climax of the story that is to be depicted?
Many of these movies are so gross and so grotesque that even the person that is generally far from squeamish cannot stomach the vividness of the blood's color, on the big screen, the screams that only movie speakers can enhance, or the clear picture of the scenery. Nothing is subtle and nothing is assumed. Clear, visualization is used, along with every sense, to feel the moment as if the viewer was there. The movie-goer often forgets that he is a paying patron sitting in a chair, rather, he or she is on the screen or in the story, at the setting that the writer has carefully explored, and everything is real. It really is quite psychological. Scary can be fun, when one can decipher between fiction and reality, from the comfort and safety of a movie seat; when nothing is left to the imagination, it is true horror!
While everyone has a favorite genre to read or to see, there seems to be no limit or boundary in what can be shown. Some of the movies are almost obscene as to what is allowed. While there may not be sexual content, the violence is unacceptable within the human race. Where there is sexual scenes, such as rape, the violence that written into a movie, is far from entertaining. If anyone were to laugh about this abnormal and illegal behavior, then that person would have to be questioned as far as the person's intent, mental state, to find humor in such a scene, and most likely as disturbed as the move ie!
A movie, such as one that recently came out, "Drag Me to Hell", looks sick when the previews are watched; one cannot imagine what it must be like to sit through the entire movie. Maybe it is time to protest such movies so that the ones from the seventies can be made, that only made us close our eyes for a few minutes or have out date hold us, safe and sound. It was harmless and scary, but did not leave us with mental scars. Even "Night of the Living Dead" from the late sixties, did not prevent many of us from going to "scary movies"; they actually were entertaining!
It's time to have some moral and a conscience when writing these stories and maybe it is time for directors to refuse to make them! Let's leave something to the imagination, when it comes to romance films, but let us not have horror movies affect our minds psychological with imprints of horrific images!
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