(June 20, 2015 at 2:14 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 17, 2015 at 7:13 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Like in A Clockwork Orange, the violence is necessary to what the film is about, and isn't simply a gore-fest. And, of course, by today's standards, it may seem rather tame.
The violence may be tame compared to some of today's films, but you'll be hard pressed to find a modern film with a premise that's more disturbing than "A Clockwork Orange."
Neimenovic, you're definitely watching films with the wrong girl.
Yes, it is the thinking about what is happening that is so disturbing in A Clockwork Orange, rather than the images themselves. The images serve the purpose of conveying the ideas. With modern slasher films, it is the images that tend to be disturbing, and there is typically very little thinking involved. Indeed, most of them require that one not think too deeply about what is going on, as otherwise one will dismiss them as being just too silly to be taken seriously.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
