What type of mentality watches this?

Did you forget to take your meds today?

Ok, here's my point: You're implying that a film can't can't have any sort of deeper merit to it if it shows brutality, gore, murder and violence. But what if that film is an exploration of such subjects? Let's say you have a film that deals with the subject of rape - Irreversible comes to mind despite that not being the central theme of the film. But you have a scene where a woman gets raped ok? And how does the director approach this scene? You can have a safe mainstream hollywood approach and cut off after 5 seconds of dry belly humping. But you can also make it realistic, you can show the viewer the harsh reality of life - "You see this? This is how rape looks like, it's fuc*ing horrible and lengthy and agonizing and disgusting and guess what fu**er!? It happens every day in real world, whether you're aware of it or not!"

I sure prefer the later approach because I despise dishonesty and sugar coating. If you think you'll get traumatised from watching it, then don't. Personally I feel much worse just thinking about the fact that even as I write this, some poor bastard is probably being dismembered by Colombian cartels or ISIS, some woman is getting raped, some child is being molested, a dog is being skinned alive and cooked alive... I could go on and on and on, but my point is that no simulated scene in any film gets close to horrors of just thinking about the reality. And I think escaping from reality by isolating ourselves in our ignorance is cowardice.