Kudos to you and anyone who can tolerate horror films enough to do these brilliant social film analyses.
Living through Reagan‘s wars on Central America with all the recurrent stories of all the death squads — which were trained in Georgia at the School of the Americas — probably cut me off from ever watching this genre.
Horror doesn't really remind me of real-life atrocities in that way? Like, war movies kind of revel in trying to reproduce or evoke those kinds of narratives or experiences. Horror films sometimes gesture towards or are about trauma and prejudice, but generally in a more abstract (and in Malignant's case fairly goofy) way.
From my perspective, horror movies accent despair, betrayal, abandonment, sadism, and so on.
A local pediatrician once asked me why abused kids like to watch scary movies.
I opined that a scary movie always showed them somebody who would suffer worse than they had and that there was probably some recognition and brief minor comfort in that.
I mean, some do, some less so...it really kind of depends. fwiw, I find cringe/embarrassment comedy a lot more painful to watch, and arguably more sadistic than horror movies in some respects.
SO many movies I'm never gonna watch. But an interesting analysis of Lecter's role in Silence of the Lambs on defining a woman. As I grew up in the 50's, I guess that passed me by as "same old same old."
Have you seen the British TV Show The Wire In The Blood, or read any of the books by Val McDermid? There's a trans killer in the first season. Worth a look
Noah, I am wondering if the DNC will go through with that virtual roll call vote that is supposed to happen at the end of this month. Ohio recently moved their ballot deadline to August 31st, so that procedure seems redundant unless they want to cement biden’s nomination without any internal dissent.
well, this is not a thread about that! but...fwiw, I was just looking around, and it seems that no one is sure whether they're doing the virtual roll call or not. I guess we'll see...
Kudos to you and anyone who can tolerate horror films enough to do these brilliant social film analyses.
Living through Reagan‘s wars on Central America with all the recurrent stories of all the death squads — which were trained in Georgia at the School of the Americas — probably cut me off from ever watching this genre.
Horror doesn't really remind me of real-life atrocities in that way? Like, war movies kind of revel in trying to reproduce or evoke those kinds of narratives or experiences. Horror films sometimes gesture towards or are about trauma and prejudice, but generally in a more abstract (and in Malignant's case fairly goofy) way.
Hmm.
From my perspective, horror movies accent despair, betrayal, abandonment, sadism, and so on.
A local pediatrician once asked me why abused kids like to watch scary movies.
I opined that a scary movie always showed them somebody who would suffer worse than they had and that there was probably some recognition and brief minor comfort in that.
I mean, some do, some less so...it really kind of depends. fwiw, I find cringe/embarrassment comedy a lot more painful to watch, and arguably more sadistic than horror movies in some respects.
Okay but….
I can unsee a bad comedy.
some of the most painful comedies are really good!
I can't unsee the Heartbreak Kid, one of the most painful movies I've ever watched. It's really good though!
SO many movies I'm never gonna watch. But an interesting analysis of Lecter's role in Silence of the Lambs on defining a woman. As I grew up in the 50's, I guess that passed me by as "same old same old."
Have you seen the British TV Show The Wire In The Blood, or read any of the books by Val McDermid? There's a trans killer in the first season. Worth a look
I haven’t; I’ll look for it for it
There are 2 seasons (series) on Amazon, but not the one I was talking about, which is the first season. You can buy the rest though.
Noah, I am wondering if the DNC will go through with that virtual roll call vote that is supposed to happen at the end of this month. Ohio recently moved their ballot deadline to August 31st, so that procedure seems redundant unless they want to cement biden’s nomination without any internal dissent.
well, this is not a thread about that! but...fwiw, I was just looking around, and it seems that no one is sure whether they're doing the virtual roll call or not. I guess we'll see...