The story of stuff

Everyone needs to watch this!

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I see now that the whole thing was nothing more than a branch that had grown off of the tree that was my immense teen angst. When I started pulling away from all that which was not me that died too like fruit from the poisonous tree.

Human Nature

Why is it that we look forward to seeing movies where in you know that everyone is going to die? Slasher films are the new age Colosseum. I have been pondering lately what it is in us that craves that amount of violence. Anyone who has taken roman history just thinks that is so unimaginable. Those people must have been so messed up and sick, right? Well our movies now are so far beyond what they had then. For one think it is dramatized. The directors and writers have the victim get tortured for as long as possible before letting that character go. Saw would be a good example.

On another thought, why is it that all of our scary “monsters” are cannibalistic? i.e. vampires, werewolves, zombies. That all seems a little played out to me. Why do we write entire films on people getting eaten? That seems so strange. Who are the monsters in this world really?