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In reply to the discussion: what is the most violent, disturbing, and sickening movie you've ever seen [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Disney movies can be traumatic too. Hell, when I was a toddler, two or three, I saw The Blob and the Incredible Shrinking Man and Mothra, and I got the shit scared out of me, because I was entirely too young to see them. Those were very mild by today's standards. If I'd been older, they wouldn't have been traumatic.
Alfred Hitchcock knew how to produce suspense without showing blood.
Also, I don't understand why overwhelming numbers of TV shows and movies are about stalking women and violence against women. Does this tell men that it's OK to commit violence against women, or is it a reflection of the social attitude that it's OK to commit violence against women? Or is it both??
I say that condoning violence against men and children is wrong as well.
My daughter made me watch some movies that she likes. I guess she was hoping I would get something out of them. I didn't. I watched Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill 2 (I think).
I remember nothing about them. Stylized, abstracted blood spatters & violence in Kill Bill just baffled me.
She also made me watch Dude Where's My Car? and Beavis and Butthead Do America. I got a lot more out of those two movies.
I made her watch The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam, which is my favorite movie of all time. More info: www.greatomar.com