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Comments

Violence on TV

[(Anonymous)]

Do you enjoy it? Do you have any concerns about it?

Re: Violence on TV

[sporkly]

I don't actively seek it out, but I don't mind it either. It's just kind of a thing that happens.

In my own internet experience, I do think seeing a lot shocking things can desensitize or make you apathetic towards things that you used to find disgusting and that isn't always good. Though I'm not really sure how and if censorship should be applied beyond don't show violent things where young kids can see this.

Re: Violence on TV

[intrigueing]

I don't mind stylized violence at all. I think people can distinguish, even subconsciously, between stylized violence and real violence. However, I believe from my experience and from what I've heard that gory, graphic, realistic violence, when used too often, has a desensitizing effect.

Re: Violence on TV

[elaminator]

+1.

Re: Violence on TV

[rubbertea]

i don't think it makes a show better or that it's necessary but i do enjoy some nice action scenes (car crashes, shootings, knife fights, even knocking someone out with a pan), even more if there's badass music in the background.
i'm not concerned about it; i don't think violence in media has an influence on real-life violence

Re: Violence on TV

[making_excuses]

Sometimes, yes other times I think it is a bit too much... And no I don't have concerns about it as long as the people watching it is old enough, entertainment is entertainment..

Re: Violence on TV

[inkdust]

I think my preferences are sort of contradictory, or else they shift, and I haven't figured out whether it has to do with my mood or with the specific genre/circumstances on the screen. I know I don't like gore, and I don't like to see people get hurt, but I do like some shows where people get hurt pretty often and I like crime shows (though I don't always look right at the screen if they have gory bits). What I know for sure is that any kind of movie or show has to have character development or I won't enjoy it. The amount of violence I feel comfortable with probably depends a lot on how much I like the non-violent parts.

My exception is sexual violence. My tolerance for depictions of that has shrunk to zero.

Re: Violence on TV

[(Anonymous)]

My main issue with violence on television/in movies is how it is treated in comparison to sex. You can show so much violence, but seeing nudity (especially male nudity) and seeing sex (especially a female orgasm) is apparently too much for the censors. At least from what I've seen from the R vs. NC-17 rating debate in movies and on television. (Like where Without a Trace got in trouble for having an orgy scene where pretty much nothing was shown but an hour earlier CSI showed all sorts of gruesome death and gore and no one really bats an eye ever.)

I, personally, have much less of an issue with nudity and sexuality being portrayed in media than I do with violence (sexual violence would count as violence, not sex, in my opinion), but apparently I am an atypical American for thinking that.

Re: Violence on TV

[(Anonymous)]

In terms of watching, the more stylised something is, the easier it is for me to enjoy it, because there's this visible extra layer of insulation between what I'm watching and reality. The more realistic things get, the harder it is for me to watch it. So something like Sin City is fine, but things like We Were Soldiers or the torture scene in Pan's Labyrinth give me the horrors. Or the sledgehammer in Misery, because she goes about it so clinically and normally that it just ...

Also, violence from the POV of the perpetrator is easier to watch than violence from the POV of the victim or violence that focuses on the victim's reactions/experiences. This does make me feel bad sometimes, because staying in the perpetrator's POV because it makes the reality of the action easier feels like a bad mindset to be getting into, but I basically just get too panicky sometimes to bear it from the victim's POV.

I tend to be a touch on the sensitive side. Several of my family say I'm brilliant to watch horror movies/shows with because my reactions tend to be a touch over the top. Apparently I have the best horrified/appalled expressions, and actually do tend to jump and flinch a lot. I also really hate slapstick humour based on 'funny' injuries, and even clip humour shows tend to make me more horrified than amused.

However, overall I don't actually mind the presence of violence on screen (except when it's being played for bad humour), though I reserve the right to yell and flinch at the screen and leave the room at certain junctures, and spend four hours with my hands tucked into my armpits after watching Pan's Labyrinth.

Re: Violence on TV

[(Anonymous)]

1. No.

2. Yes.

Re: Violence on TV

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't bother me because for me there's a very big difference between fictional violence and real violence. I'm just fine with fictional gore because I know that it's just special effects and makeup and that no one is actually being hurt.

To be honest, I always find it very strange when people try to equate fictional violence with real violence because they're such completely different concepts in my mind.