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(October 15, 2018 at 10:39 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: A different kind of brutal:
IIRC, A woman gets raped on camera
For the most part I can watch cancer story lines - they're sufficiently fake that I don't relate too closely with them.
Ah. Imagine that, someone whose favourite film is A Clockwork Orange and is on the autism spectrum greatly overestimates how desensitized other people are to on-screen violence.
If I am remembering that scene correctly (and I may not be) I would rank it as in my top 3 most disturbing/hard to watch things I've seen in TV or film.
Quote:So I take it you thought Walter White's battle with cancer wasn't realistic. Or sufficiently on the sidelines that it wasn't too hard to watch. Or that operations weren't a part of the treatment, if I recall.
Not realistic at all. I'll put it in spoiler tags in case you don't want the conceit of the show ruined
I can buy the idea of Walt getting his diagnosis and having a panicky "I have to do something" reaction, what I don't buy at all any more is the fact that it takes, what, two seasons or something for him to get an update on how his treatment is going and that he's in remission? Nope, nope, nope. Unless the timeline of the first two seasons takes place over like three months (which is doesn't) then he would have probably had imaging checking on his treatment progress much much sooner - the docs wouldn't let him go 6+ months without seeing if treatment was working or whether it needed to be modified for effectiveness.
I also get that it's a story about him becoming a drug manufacturer in order to earn money for his family before he dies and it's not about his diagnosis or treatment, but he would be seeing doctors all the time, he'd be watched like a hawk, and there is little chance he would be as active as he is in the show if he were on really aggressive chemo. I also question whether he would have the time to cook meth, do all these drug deal, get up to his antics, hold down his job, and go through chemo/recovery every week to two weeks. In that sense it's pretty realistic that Skylar would get as suspicious as she does about his activities.
Granted, they don't say a whole lot about his course of treatment but I would assume that he would be on weekly of biweekly chemo meaning he would get much more run down than he's shown and he would absolutely not have been able to grow/keep his goatee becomes such an iconic part of Heisenberg's look. He is also shown, I think, shaving his head which wouldn't need to happen.
tl;dr
Watching Breaking Bad after having cancer is probably like working in the medical field and watching medical dramas: soooooooo faaaaaaake!
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
(October 15, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: If I am remembering that scene correctly (and I may not be) I would rank it as in my top 3 most disturbing/hard to watch things I've seen in TV or film.
I suppose you haven't seen The Girl Next Door (the 2007 horror film, not the Elisha Cuthbert comedy), Salo (aka: Eat Shit and Die: The Motion Picture), A Serbian Film, Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede, Where the Dead go to Die, or Antichrist. After these films, a simple rape scene doesn't even register as a possibility of making the top 10. Top 40 maybe, but not Top 10.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
(October 16, 2018 at 11:20 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I suppose you haven't seen The Girl Next Door[ (the 2007 horror film, not the Elisha Cuthbert comedy), Salo (aka: Eat Shit and Die: The Motion Picture), A Serbian Film, Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede, Where the Dead go to Die, or Antichrist. After these films, a simple rape scene doesn't even register as a possibility of making the top 10. Top 40 maybe, but not Top 10.
Nope.
I will always find rape scenes disturbing because I can very easily picture myself in those situations.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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