Television
There is a TV program on now. I have a whole series to watch. It is the type of television which is a bit too clean and neat. There is plenty of violence and sexuality, but it is the kind that has still been designed not to offend anyone. It is a bizarre combination. Murder takes place on television, in a politically correct way and without profanity. The blood has become more real than it was when I was young. I no longer looks like paint or catsup. But everything has to be perfectly distributed across racial and cultural boundaries. This alone is not a problem. Equality for all. But when it is overly so, one feels like he is watching something which makes the most extreme violence the most acceptable.
There was a Japanese film about a blind swordsman. Someone told me that the blood was deliberately made to look non-realistic. Along with the hyper realism of the special effects, a value was to be taken away, to keep things from being too harsh.
I don't know how all of this is to add up. Since the introduction of the Hayes code, where gangsters could gun people down with machine guns, but not say anything as vile as "damn" or "hell" this odd paradox has shaped society. One would never see bare breasts on television, but the moment he walked into an art gallery...
I suppose I would rather watch this stuff in the controlled context, where there are happy endings, than to consider how things happen in the real world.
There was a Japanese film about a blind swordsman. Someone told me that the blood was deliberately made to look non-realistic. Along with the hyper realism of the special effects, a value was to be taken away, to keep things from being too harsh.
I don't know how all of this is to add up. Since the introduction of the Hayes code, where gangsters could gun people down with machine guns, but not say anything as vile as "damn" or "hell" this odd paradox has shaped society. One would never see bare breasts on television, but the moment he walked into an art gallery...
I suppose I would rather watch this stuff in the controlled context, where there are happy endings, than to consider how things happen in the real world.