haha.. oh man. I'm in serious trouble if spelling or typos are at all related to virtue!! — MysticMonist
fantasy and media (everything from written and oral stories to movies and video games) are highly related. — MysticMonist
Of course we still get angry and do things we regret, but I wonder if violence was never portrayed it might not be emulated except by mistake. — MysticMonist
What about a parent though? Since you want to raise ethical and not psychologicaly damaged kids would you keep away R rated movies when they are five? — MysticMonist
What about being a virtue seeking adult? Would you avoid overly gruesome films with senseless violence and poor moral messages? Would you pride yourself and think you were doing some worthy by boycotting anything with so much as a cuss word? — MysticMonist
That is interesting. I am much the same, I also avoid movies containing extreme violence, horror movies, and the like. Even "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was quite painful to watch. Lately, I actually pretty much avoid all movies :s - I just don't find them enjoyable anymore. When I was a teenager and 20 or so I loved going to the cinema with friends, nowadays, it would be so boring to go, and I wouldn't feel much better for having gone afterwards.I do avoid gruesome films with senseless violence and poor moral messages. There are quite a few films that I saw and enjoyed in my prime movie-going years that I positively can not stand to watch now. I think "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a great movie, but the last time I saw it, it left me angry and agitated. I walked out of Bonnie and Clyde the last time I tried to watch it again. Just too much gratuitous blood, death, etc.
I don't like horror and monster movies, either -- not because they are immoral, but because I find them upsetting. I'm a sucker for all the tricks of the people-frightening trade. I read On the Road by Cormac McCarthy -- it starts at bleak and it goes down hill from there. It was OK as a book. I decided to watch the movie too and found it unbearable. I didn't want vivid images of the desolation of On the Road floating around my memory, so I quit after about 5 minutes.
I don't think children should see movies like Bonnie and Clyde or The Godfather. The story lines are too adult, too intense, and the depictions are too vivid. But then, I wouldn't take a child to watch an Ingmar Bergman film either -- like The Seventh Seal or Wild Strawberries. Children would find them terminally boring, at best. Casablanca would be OK for children to see -- at worst they wouldn't appreciate it.
Mad Men, Breaking Bad -- both very good shows, I thought; just not children's movies. — Bitter Crank
Yep, after having seen a horror movie I always became more paranoid >:O - I never understood how people could watch such things.What few horror shows I saw as I child (we weren't allowed, usually) gave me phobias about the dark. — Bitter Crank
I don't really see your point.The primary element in horror as a genre is the unknown. Not gore, terror, disgusting things...manipulate that element of the unknown, and horror becomes a totally different experience. And philosophically, the unknown has a nearly boundless energy all it's own, hence the potency of the unknown in art. — Noble Dust
I still don't follow - maybe you should start a thread on the feeling of horror >:OSo the feeling of horror isn't the feeling of watching someone be brutally murdered ala Hollywood; the feeling of horror is simply the feeling of not knowing what the fuck is happening; philosophically, it's analogous to the feeling of existential dread. — Noble Dust
I still don't follow - maybe you should start a thread on the feeling of horror — Agustino
Surely what is horrifying is the certainty that something bad will happen — Agustino
whereas the existential confusion that you speak about can create a sort of paranoia that something bad is happening since you can't make heads or tails anymore, and hence you can no longer use reason to protect yourself from what is now perceived to be inevitably bad. — Agustino
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