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[thebruce0]

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[thebruce0]

I think the question I'm raising is not the importance of the concept, but rather the method of its portrayal. Is it really necessary to visually barrage the viewer with no-holds-barred gruesome content to get the point across?

Obviously there's no definitive answer, but the point being moreso that I personally think there is an understandable limit between necessary and gratuitous. Much in the movie made sense, but much was also gratuitous, in that I personally don't value the visual impact above the intent, the purpose of the implication.

An arm can break and its gruesome pain inflicting violence can easily be implied without having to watch bone break skin in a super-realistic manner just to get a gut reaction to the visual. And as with some of the other extreme content.

Or in regards to the nudity, is it in there to express the love/lust between the people involved, or is there to illicit an 'oooo' 'aaaah' reaction from the viewer? The former, I can understand, but when it falls to the latter (and people have different limits between the two), then it's gratuitous for me. And many squirmed uncomfortably at the length and content of that scene, and I've seen sufficient sentiment in reviews to warrant the point that the sex scene was fairly gratuitous. The point could be made without lingering nudity or blatant visuals. Heck, even the innuendo would have been sufficient :P.
But of course with all the extreme content already in the movie, the scene just fit right in :P

So, maybe there's no real answer, but it's again a debate about where someone's lines are drawn between flavour (nice touch, the 'cool' factor), necessity (a sort of reluctant acceptance), and gratuitousness (was that really necessary? I got your point).

[vortech]

I don;t really understand how you can imply something like that. I especially don't understand the critique of super realism if the whole point was to show the realistic outcome of accepted "toned down" superhero flicks. I mean the whole point of a visual medium is to show things. if the work is going to shy away from representing the things that happen it may as well be in a different medium.

I think most people are complaining about how the sex scene was ridiculously composed or how it's missing the symbolism of the book, not that they saw boobies.