Well now that I've gotten over the initial shock of that scene, I feel I agree with the message. However there are ways of communicating it without being so crass. Maybe dark comedies are about shocking for shock's sake, I don't know. This seems like it's more intelligent then that.
To be honest I'm tired with the endless portrayal of violence and smut on TV, and I'll admit watching Law & Order SVU really isn't much better than watching an action film where a helpless old lady is tortured. Things are pretty bad, when the only media you can watch that isn't hateful is cartoons, and even then they sometimes slip a othering message to kids in there. My apologies should whoever wrote this film read my above message, although chances are unlikely they would.
I tend to overreact, but it comes from a place of feeling troubled by injustice. Yet that's what the scene in my view was trying to communicate, we worship those like Jack Bauer from 24 who do injustice in order to create justice, how is that better than the people from Guantanamo Bay? It's a pretty sick world we live in, considering most adult media is about negativity.
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