You're a Hunger Games fan? Yay! I enjoyed books and I liked the movie a lot - very good adaptation, it kept me engaged and nervous even though I know the plot.
About people and violence - it's true that this need for sensation can be horrifying but I wouldn't demonize it. I'm not saying it's ok but psychology could be at use here I'm sure (the need to tame the death for example). I immediately thought about what vinegar_dog said - how people enjoyed watching other dying on arenas. Or how in Medieval times executions were the main source of entertainment. Today many of us (the lucky ones living in relatively safe Western world and the ones that managed to avoid violence in life) are rather sheltered from horrors of direct violence so observing it on tv can be seen almost as something unreal, and definitely distant - so there goes some kind of emotional anesthesia.
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Date: 2012-05-29 09:20 am (UTC)About people and violence - it's true that this need for sensation can be horrifying but I wouldn't demonize it. I'm not saying it's ok but psychology could be at use here I'm sure (the need to tame the death for example). I immediately thought about what vinegar_dog said - how people enjoyed watching other dying on arenas. Or how in Medieval times executions were the main source of entertainment. Today many of us (the lucky ones living in relatively safe Western world and the ones that managed to avoid violence in life) are rather sheltered from horrors of direct violence so observing it on tv can be seen almost as something unreal, and definitely distant - so there goes some kind of emotional anesthesia.