I feel the question must be asked after seeing this film.... If we don't enjoy it,why do we insist on repeating it? It reminds me of how people really "got off" upon bin Laden's death,Hussiens botched hanging, the statue pulldown, and the start of the fear and awe bombing campaign in Baghdad.
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles." Ronald Reagan
people do enjoy it, they always have: from the gladitorial games to public executions. Even more now that supposedly modern civilisation says that we are above such primal feelings, it is the fact that it is taboo that heightens people's enjoyment. And because it is seen as a morally bad thing people will not admit it (until it is seen as socially aceptable).
shareI agree 100%
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles." Ronald Reagan
Agreed, it doesn't seem to happen as often, as before, due to soapy distractions that aid in suppressing these behaviors.
shareIt is our nature. That doesn't mean it is to be accepted or reveled in, it is something to rise above.
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You should watch the Guns of Navarone which is an anti war film. In it one
of the commandos said, "people have fought 1000 wars and will fight 1000 more
wars and I dont give a shyt".
Hominides or great apes have roamed Planet Earth for about 15 million years. Homo Sapiens - that is: us - have been around for about 200.000 years. From this timeline perspective, "we" (as in "we, who consider ourselves to be some sort of civilized people") have been around for only 1% of the time our biological species has been around. Or only 0,01% of the time our primitive ancestors have roamed planet Earth.
So it is safe to say that we probably still have some properties of our near, or somewhat further, ancestors. Human evolution does not demonstrate sudden progress. Biologically spoken, we are still the same people who installed democracy in Greece, who conquered Europe as Romans, who invented the wheel and gunpowder in the Far East, who suppressed farmers and took slaves in a feodal system, who fought World Wars and gassed our fellow citizens, and who socially persecuted 'deviant' people like homosexual, left-handed, and red-haired people.
That was our fathers and mothers, and their fathers and mothers.
Our species has rarely failed to kill their own, when they felt the need arose. We are *great* at waging wars, and at killing our own species. Germans and Russians are responsible for the biggest manslaughter of our times; and one is going down in historiography as a culprit and the other as an 'ally'. The US lied to the world and killed half a million people in Iraq, and still many Americans defend that action. Americans are so blood-thirsty that they still install & defend the death penalty in many states, while many civilzed countries have abolished it.
In the world of fiction, we see that movies in which people are killed, maimed, shot, cut are hugely popular. Gore adds to the popularity of a film. The popularity of the 'Saw' line of movies cannot be understood in any other way.
So in conclusion, I would say that yes, humans enjoy slaughtering each other. We like to see that our own are physically hurt, especially our perceived enemies - and we revel in the idea that it is 'not us' who get slaughtered.
Now it is time to (re)watch the first episode of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".