On Jul 18, 1:34=A0am, "steve" wrote:
> This is a theory I cant accept. =A0One can sympathize with a victim that =
we
> see suffering, even if the camera takes the position of the killer. =A0Th=
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> ., strangulation scene in Frenzy (the hero's ex-wife) instills nothing
> but horror and sympathy for the victim and certainly does not give me any
> "sick joy" because the camera views the victim head on. =A0Simply because=
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> camera shows us what the killer see's does not require us to stand in his
> place emotionally. Our emotional reaction to the suffering is (should be,
> anyway) quite different than his, even if we share a viewing angle. =A0Se=
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> what a killer sees does not make us killers.
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. I'm sure (or hope at any rate) that
the vast majority of people viewing a shot of a victim being stalked
from the killer's pov, in, say, a forest, would think "God, that's
scary because when I walk through a forest someone could be watching
me like that and I would never know" and not "If I wanted to kill
someone I'd do it in a forest". |