In Reply to: Did you watch to whole thing (i.e., to where they are now)? posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 18, 2021 at 11:58:00:
i.e. to rape and murder their fellows, is corrosive, dehumanizing--- for the viewer, Chris. Not all, most, or many rich-and-powerful people are rapists/murders. Insensitive to those beneath them, supporters of cruel social policies, yes; active participants in cruel slaughter? No. The armed forces learned long ago that for GIs to participate in actual combat killing, they had to be "programmed" by rigorous psychological conditioning--- and even so, in battle, many fired not at the enemy, but at the general vicinity (reported and supported in "The Mask of Command," by a fellow (John Keegan) who long taught at England's most prestigious officer training college).
There is NO artistic, philosophical, or moral purpose to showing such repeated, graphic, gruesome, and sadistic behavior--- it is, to be blunt, voyeuristic and extremely violent pornography. It isn't the mere depiction of said acts, it is their exceptionally (and I mean that, exactly) graphic, repeated, and casual use: this is textbook gratuitousness.
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Follow Ups
- The oft stated/implied message: average people want this, - tinear 09:56:11 09/19/21 (8)
- Your comment about the general armed forces and their need for. . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:26:12 09/19/21 (7)
- People in positions of power are, mostly, socio-or-psycho-paths? Wow! - tinear 07:59:15 09/20/21 (0)
- People in positions of power are, mostly, socio-or-psychopaths? Wow! - tinear 07:57:36 09/20/21 (5)
- Wow indeed! - Chris from Lafayette 11:06:42 09/20/21 (4)
- Gratuitous violence, endlessly repeated. Very deep, Chris. - tinear 07:18:05 09/22/21 (3)
- Yeah - it must seem that way when you lack the capacity. . . - Chris from Lafayette 14:59:51 09/22/21 (2)
- Try discussing without puerile insults. Gratuitous violence: do you q - tinear 15:27:31 09/22/21 (1)
- C'mon, tin - I KNOW you can do it if you wish real hard! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 20:06:12 09/22/21 (0)