Posted on 04/20/2014 at 05:54 AM
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I think I see what your driving at. It kinda reminds me of one class I took long ago that tried to blur the lines between the violence with a movie that came out that was suppose to be "based" on some sadistic murders done back in the 80's. I don't remember the movie well but it involved some guy kindnapping girls and torturing them with rape and medical procedures that made them more accessable for his interests at any given moment.
I think the movie was almost banned given how it bordered close to a snuff film since it supposedly included the very violent actions he did to the actors on screen. But no one really died and instead focused more on the survival aspect of the event when one girl escaped. I recall many of the female students getting upset when the instructor tried to explain that the rape in the movie wasn't a sex crime and more of a control action in of itself.
But what got me was how even though I knew it was just a movie, we were suppose to look on it as actual events given that the actions done in the movie were done in real life.
It's probably why I simplified it with just being "violence is violence" given how it got very deep and complex on the act itself, the movie created and the themes it visitied in not just "entertainment" but also the study of the human condition of the "serial mutliator" and the survivors guilt experainced by the escaped girl.
The oddest thing of it all is that I can recall all of that yet not the title of the movie.