[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Jordan Peele in Get Out did a good job of it.




And that makes it part of the problem. We have low empathy for violence, so movies have to get bloodier to impress us, so the level of empathy goes down even more. This is a road to nowhere and sooner or later you will have to turn off it. Plus, I don?t understand why fantasy is chosen to show extra-violence (this now applies not only to the Black Sun, but in general). In more realistic genres, it would be easier to arouse empathy in the audience.



And the problem is that the Black Sun did not cope with this. Again, the topic dedicated to him confirms this. And the wrong message sometimes only hurts.



I agree with the article for the most part. Perhaps my position is that it is important to understand that hyper-violence does not equal reality. A dystopia is just as impossible as a utopia. As someone who is in a country at war, I can safely say that in war the best and worst manifestations of human nature are encountered in almost the same way and none of them outweigh the others. Actually, even the war itself takes place only so that there is peace in another corner of the globe.

Get Out, a movie that had the villains prey on black people to kidnap them, tearing them away from their loved ones all for racist reasonings, should not be called nonviolent imo, there's still physical violence but that movie is a psychological thriller so I find the comparison to be rather weak, it's like saying Twilight Zone isn't disturbing because it doesn't habe gratuitous levels of violence. As for Black Sun, I feel it's important to know about actual political stuff in Japan to understand why the direction was done the way it was, the Kaijin racists harassing a school is also taken one for one out of stuff that happens in Japan, I saw an excellent video on it a while back so I'll go link it when I find it


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https://youtu.be/iGhaQ5P1OBs

I would like to make it clear that my main point here is that I believe the physical violence to be meaningful rather than cheap shock value, it can help to visualize the brutality of the societal issues the show wishes to handle to an audience who may not be affected