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It's not just torture that's taking place on TV, it's violence in many forms. When my sister asked me to described breaking bad series, knowing her so well, th
by atmosx 13y ago
It's not just torture that's taking place on TV, it's violence in many forms.
When my sister asked me to described breaking bad series, knowing her so well, the first word that came out of my mind without seven thinking was: Violent.
- mavhc 13y agoA man picks the side of violence, and is destroyed by it. Works better if you assume the final episode was a dream
- scotty79 13y agoI think Rambo was more violent.
- Ygg2 13y agoMore violent than Saw, Dexter or Hannibal? I'd say not.
- scotty79 13y agoYeah. Probably not. I haven't even watched Saw. I'm too emotional. As for Dexter I don't think it's violent. It would be family comedy-drama about slightly maladjusted individual if not for all the killings. On the other hand I have friends who coldn't suffer through first episode. At the same time they happily watch something as nasty as Das Experiment. I guess there is some variation in perception of violence.
- Ygg2 13y agoThe problem is that the audience is meant to empathize with the murderer. Like saying, killing is ok, which freaks the hell out of me. In Saw the antagonist is the only one committing crimes, so it's easy to put mental barriers around violence, saying only a disturbed/twisted/evil individuals commit gruesome murders. In Dexter there are no such barriers, you either accept the protagonist and his PoW that murder of people is fine, or you reject the series. Dexter is much more sublime in it's violence, it implicitly says this could be you.
- scotty79 13y agoI really don't get that. I think it's because I've played so much videogames where I personally "killed" countless "people" while impersonating sometimes less than stellar protagonists. While watching Dexter I have the same feeling as when playing videogames. It's not violent if "killed" is just a bunch of pixels on the screen. In Dexter killed usually have almost no personality only some serious criminal traits. When they are killed I don't feel any more empathy than I feel towards targets in a game. I find shows where characters are properly humanized before getting hurt much more disturbing. And it doesn't even have to be physical harm.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoBreaking Bad actually had relatively little violence as far as contemporary TV shows go. Most of it was tame, with very few instances of grislier brutality. That and it all perfectly fit within the narrative, rather than being wanton and gratuitous for no reason.