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I am not sure that this comparison justifies people being capable of enjoying something like Saw. It's like comparing yoga with, well, actual torture. They both

• filoleg 5y ago
  It's like saying you don't understand how someone could enjoy playing Call of Duty or any other FPS videogames, because it involves killing people in the game, which is a terrifying and horrible experience that pretty much no one would want to go through irl. So it must be that they enjoy murder irl, right? They don't enjoy the torture parts of Saw, they enjoy how that movie overall makes them feel (terrified, contemplating certain moral dilemmas, etc.). Like, the point of Saw, from what I gathered, was that it put people who did terrible things to others into those death game circumstances. Which adds a whole other sub-theme of "but does it make it less terrible, if they were a horrible person?" type of a dilemma. And overall, the grotesque nature of the visuals in the movie just serves the purpose of highlighting how horrifying it all is, not to make people enjoy the torture and think "wow, this is kinda fun and lighthearted". Mind you, I am saying that as someone who cannot really stomach horror movies in general. That doesn't mean that I cannot see plenty of valid reasons for why people might like those movies.
  • notpachet 5y ago
    Heh, despite being in the prime market for games like Call of Duty, I am not able to stomach those either, but I take your point. That level of gore just feels like such an indelible blot on the whole rest of the enterprise that I don't see how anyone would be able to taste anything else on the palate, but suppose people do have pretty different palates.