Differences in Violence and Emotion

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    In most cases, I think that violence on screen is pretty much a caricature. I don't think that the majority of us are being desensitised to real life violence and suffering.

    There's a certain aesthetic to movie violence which is always going to be missing in tapes of real stuff... I think it's this lack of cinematography / lighting / staging which lets us instantly realise that we're watching something which is serious.

    Most of us probably have a lot of experience of being a witness to figurative violence, but (hopefully) far less of real violence - there's no reason that that on-screen depictions should realistically portray death (unless the director / crew went to great lengths to mimic real life snuff .. which would be gratuitous and sick behaviour).

    • So Band of Brothers did a pretty good job being gratuitous and sick, right?Arvizu
    • I think that particular series involved quite impressive cinematography.. which snuff film are you suggesting was used for reference?
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    • used for reference?
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    • i misunderstood you to mean that anything that looked realistic could be compared to snuff--not actually modeled after a snuff film... sorry. Band of Brother's is insanely well done, and seemingly realistic.Arvizu
    • < film... sorry. Band of Brother's is insanely well done, and seemingly realistic.Arvizu

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