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Watching Bill Curtis delve into the dark side of media influence was extremely fascinating. The examples given were both unsettling and hard to relate to. I’ve seen natural born killers, but I never felt the urge to get a psycho girlfriend and go on a rampage. While there seems to be a general consensus that movies don’t directly cause people to go out and commit violent acts they can definitely inspire crazy people or give them an idea of what to do. Perhaps more importantly we should examine what sort of culture glorifies violence on-screen. Movies such as Natural Born Killers, that provided the violent spark that ignited real-life killers, portray killing as consequence-free and glamorous. No one single movie can or should be singled out to blame for copycat violence, but the system as a whole needs to be examined, as this problem is clearly widespread. Perhaps if the media has such a strong influence on people we should strive to create films that show the greatness of human potential, instead of its capacity for depravity. Here are my questions, are criminals inspired by to copycat because they lack originality, believe it will give them a lighter sentence, or some other reason? Has anyone heard of a Saw copycat killer because of all the ways to die, the ones constructed in those films probably give me the biggest heebie-jeebies, though I’m not sure any single disturbed individual is clever enough to pull something like that off?
I've always thought about how the director of saw must be a secret serial killer, because most of the ways those people die is just disgusting enough to only be imagined by a murderer themselves. But I agree, I feel like it would inspire killers to do a terrible deed
ReplyDeleteI think the thing with Saw is that the violence and murders depicted were so intricate and complicated that your average serial killer was like "eff that noise... too much work". But some of the simpler things like chaining someone up and telling them they will only get free if they saw their foot off could easily be copied, heaven forbid.
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