Ethics- Surprise!
I just saw the movie Sin City. It was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen- nearly every single human taboo that you could possibly think of was exploited and occasionally celebrated. Still, it was less effective at being frightening than say, Saw. Horror movies try to exploit realism, and Sin City was quite obviously comic-book like in character, more so than Spiderman or X-Men, to the point where the dialogue might have come straight off a comic page. The special effects made no attempt towards realism. As a result, the disturbing images did not come across as being as blatantly disgusting as they might have been. I find it interesting that simply the context of taking place in a make believe world can desensitize our feelings.
posted by Emmett @ 16:44
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