Matt Walsh video. More my point of few. I was never a Tarantino fan. Not so much a Horror fan either, except that I like low budget creativity.
Blood and Gore is not really my thing, except in cases where it’s just part of the story.
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Squid game: great, relatable, human characters. Great development. Heartbreaking moments of love, sadness and betrayal. An outlook on the horrible circumstances that society can put people in.
This guy: torture porn
The “thrill” doesn’t come from the gore, it comes from the tension given the life/death high stakes in the games and watching the characters have to strategize to survive. You don’t know who’s going to live and die, and in each scenario, you almost project yourself into the characters POV and empathize with them and try to imagine how you’d escape. I think the fact that you’re in the subjective mindset of the characters disproves the whole “torture porn” thing, where that would imply you’re mentally objectifying them.
This is the classic impasse:
You cannot criticize something you have not consumed.
But how then would you abstain or prevent anyone from doing something negative?
This reminds me of the right’s anti-DnD phase… but on the other hand, if you’re against it on principle you really don’t have to taste-test it.
The most level headed opinion about this series I’ve heard this far. It’s all programming, Hollywood knows what humans refuse to believe about themselves. To be entertained by death is exposing the darkness and hatred inside many. This series IMO seems like nothing more than a psychopaths “wet dream”. Look at what these types are doing to our society as we speak, they expect soon that “you will own nothing and you will be happy.”
And as they sit back and watch US watch squid game and enjoy it…., I’m sure they just think that all of us are no better than dogs who don’t mind being on a leash and owned by them. I mean, who else would enjoy watching people play innocent games while their masters blow their heads off, but masochists and sadists?
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