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Re: Why do people watch Tarantino?

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on January 30, 2006 at 06:20:20

In Reply to: Re: Why do people watch Tarantino? posted by RGA on January 29, 2006 at 19:37:02:

I don't need anyone make me love the PF, and frankly, loving something or not is not really the whole subject of learning - I do not expect to love every bit of news on TV, and yet I watch it every day.

Besides studying what a particular director is doing there is also the social aspect to all this - one would be well served to have awareness of what his society lives and breathes. I do not expect to discover huge sellout crowds at the new Bergman work, and I know what the AMC-16 smells like during the onslaught of teenager hordes when Friday the 375657 is in town... all those represent part of the society portrait, and as we know it is not the most pretty painting at the local gallery.

So I simply don't get all those questions: "Why do you even watch those?" I do because they are part of the culture... plain and simple. I do not watch for enjoyment, not anymore than I watch the latest Middle East news.

I have never seen Tarantino's work in a theater, and probably never will. What's available free on the cable is just fine with me. But as I stated many times before, every time I see his work I lament the wasted talent, the talent that comes through clearly enough in many small episodes.

However, this post was not about Tarantino. It was about what moves people to see the gore, the scum, the brutality and all that senseless violence in his movies. It was about the viewers, not the maker.

I do not buy for one second that "argument" that all those things happen in life. I am fully aware of what does happen, but I am also aware of beauty, love, devotion, dedication, kindness that also exist in life. So the artist's choice of subject does reflect his choices, his preferences, much more than it reflects the realities.

The same could be said about the viewer. I suppose those who say we all have dark side to our persona are right, and given right situation we all would show it? Passively, in the dark room, or actively as prison guards abusing other human beings... I do not see much distinction between the two.

There is no question that Tarantino has such dark side, and being able to do something about it, he is. As I said - his choice.

But what exactly moves people to watch Michael Madsen doing his gratuitous sadistic best?

THAT is what I would like to know.

Is there a line between that and watching the human beings torn apart by lions? I fail to see that line.

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