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From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries)
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Subject: Re: Violence in movies
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 21:17:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 21:17:07 1985
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     AIYEE!  Elizabeth, your letter is a chiller in and of it's self!  You speak
of how you don't mind seeing (in the movies) someone getting shot but to actually
see the gore and have to deal with that is a bad scene.  This perfectly reflects
actual murder statistics and ease of violence studies.  When people can stand
back at a safe, remote, distance and kill they are much more likely to do so.
This is why handguns are such a threat and the bomb, where we can obliterate 
millions of living, breathing souls with the mere press of a button from 
continents away is so many times worse than any previous weapon.  This allows
us to dehumanize others, they become just objects to be destroyed. (Sartre's 
idear of objectification.)  I hadn't previously thought about it in these terms
but it's really quite nasty.  I too abhore the gory violence of Friday the 13th
and it's family of films but love to watch the 'clean' violence of James Bond 
and such.   Where does this lead us???
 
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