[ SECRET POST #5042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I find it disturbing that anyone on either side would know for sure how realistic their fictional torture is. Fictional torture is fine! But how do you know its level of realism unless you've seen the real thing?

[(Anonymous)]

There are other ways for people to have seen real-life blood, guts, and viscera than by torture.

[(Anonymous)]

...Because of the framework of film. Every bit of context tells your brain basic common sense. "This isn't real because movies aren't real. This chair I'm sitting in, the screen I'm looking at, the decision I made to watch a horror film, the ticket I purchased or the title I chose on streaming all tell me this is a fake horror movie."

All that context tells you it isn't real. You don't have to watch a single LiveLeak video to know that the movie you're watching isn't the real thing. You just need, I dunno. A brain.

And so, knowing it isn't real. Because it isn't. Means you can enjoy it. Knowing that all these nice actors and filmmakers go home to their dogs and their salads and their average-schmaverage tax-paying lives means that this isn't real so it can be entertainment.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

The context of this argument is that someone said that watching torture porn is fun and enjoyable because it looks obviously unrealistic.

"Because it's so incredibly unrealistic. Blood doesn't look like that. Innards don't look like that. Bodies don't work that way, at all. It's as deeply absurd as the buckets of blood in the original Evil Dead movie, just given a high SFX gloss. The entire genre is so incredibly over the top that if it doesn't straight gross you out, there's a good chance of it coming down on the side of hilarious. Because what the fuck, human beings actually wrote and filmed this shit and never once stopped and went "wait, is this remotely physically possible?""

That post isn't saying "it's fun because I know rationally that it's not real", it's saying "it's fun because it appears to be unrealistic". Something can still appear to be realistic even with the knowledge that it's not real. The post that started this thread is making a really fundamentally different point than the one you're making here.

[(Anonymous)]

...You don't need to have seen real torture to know how human bodies work, anon. Do you also think people who criticize the way characters in action movies rebound without any lingering effects from a serious blow to the head or walk off a gunshot wound are in the habit of cracking skulls and shooting people?