Did anyone actually um...enjoy this thing?

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let me start by saying that i linked to the imdb article while looking up Mondo style cinema. i'm not interested in watching this movie, whatsoever. but after reading through the comments i felt compelled to post.

i love experimental film, violent movies, gore, absurdism, over the top stuff that really 'pushes the envelope'. documentary, pseudo-documentary, dramatic and fictional...whatever. it is all cool to me. i really 'enjoy' being deeply touched or affected by a film or documentary. my interests are completely outside of the mainstream.

i get the most enjoyment from films that affect me deeply. whether those feeling are good or bad. for example, i didn't turn my head or cover my eyes during the torture scene in 'syriana' when clooney's character was having his fingernails ripped out with pliers. i REALLY wanted to, but had to force myself to watch. that scene was obviously written to illustrate the evils of whats going on in the world in REALITY and did so in a very powerful way, imho. as a movie lover, i felt it would do the film an injustice if i DIDN'T see the WHOLE thing. i wanted the whole cinematic experience and now, its burned into my memory. my palms are sweating right now, even :) as a result, i'm now much more sensitive to incidents such as the Nick Berg beheading, or any of the other journalists and aid workers who have been kidnapped by terrorists and executed. i feel that i care more now as a result or seeing that film. this is just one example, but i think you get my point.

and kill bill was awesome. simply because it was art, much like a comic book. the violence was used to add humor. and i was laughing out loud while watching it. it was damn entertaining.

real snuff footage and stuff like Traces of death (which i've gathered from my readings IS primarily real footage) only serve as a mind numbing agent. i've seen my fair share of real death/maim video clips over the years (such as the R budd suicide clip, a woman being struck by a train, a police chase that ended in a shotgun suicide on live TV, etc). the only thing i was left with was a desire to erase it from my memory. it doesn't heighten anyone's awareness of the big bad scary world or communicate anything redeeming, entertaining, or informative. it has no message...artistic, political, religious, cultural or otherwise.

before you label me as one, let me say that i'm no prude, by any stretch of the word. i like my entertainment RAW. music, movies, art, drugs, life, the whole deal. but i feel all that videos of this nature do is rob us of our ability to be entertained and affected by art and films...and day to day life. and i say 'video' because this is not a 'film' or anything artistic. it is trash.

and dude...c'mon. you know wtf was meant by the 'einstein' comment. we've all heard that before. don't get all pseudo intellectual about it just because you can't sufficiently explain yourself. it just makes you look juevenille and ignorant.

you may be the messenger, but i am the letter writer. and without letters, what good is a messenger?

Thats fake. Thats fantasy. Thats fiction. Its about plots and twists and stories.There's a directors and actors and make up artists. This is real life *beep* that cant be TAKEN BACK. SEPERATE urself from fantasy and fiction before u ask me such a dumbass question.

"Wiggle your big toe"

I'll fight the people that created this $hit, before i die, i will fight the creators.