Monday, April 22, 2013

Violence Needs to Stop

So violence isn't news to anyone, especially if your from the US.  Violence in fiction is what I intended to focus on, but I'm gonna branch out later. Now in fictional novels violence is used as a tool. Harry Potter kills the ones you love to remind you there were losses in victory and that no one benefits from war. In Hunger Games the violence shows how far humanity has fallen and how they're trying to trivialize violence. I'm gonna go on with the Hunger Games briefly. I feel like the movie trivialized the violence too much. The only scene that you felt it was Rue's death. I also think that it was better with them just sending the bread. The fight coming then seemed like revenge, instead of what the bread was. It was supposed to be a sign that they realized what she'd done and that these people were just humans too. The movie also focused more on love triangle aspect then on how truly wrong the violence was or the psychological aspects of the games. As a society we can show gore and blood in films, but we censor emotional thing. If a person use any type of strong language it's a higher film rating than if you show someone being shot or stabbed. We're afraid of emotion, but become desensitized to violence.  Someone I know spent time in a country with a very low violence and teen pregnancy issue. She learned that their television censored more violence, but was more honest about sex and emotion which I think might be a better bet.  Violence just breeds violence. When a violent act is committed we want harm to come to the perpetrator which just causes more hate and violence. Instead we need to remind people that it's wrong. I think we should concentrate on a different aspect.  Who can name 3-5 serial killers? Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, the Boston Strangler, etc.  Who can name 3-5 victims of serial killings? I can't and neither an most people.  We focus on the criminals, when we ought to focus on the victims. On helping people recover, aiding families of victims, and improving things do there's less violence. 

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