What a fascinating study of human nature and how desensitized we have become to human pain. Great commentary on news and media culture and how human suffering itself has become a form of entertainment. Sensationalization of death to keep viewers interested and to make more money is such a fucked up habit that has been normalized. Gyllenhaal’s emotionless character, representing us money hungry and dopamine hungry humans with complete lack of empathy was such a scary character and he played it just so incredibly well. I sometimes also wonder when I watch films like Terrifier, where the film literally has nothing to offer other than innocent human beings getting brutally murdered and I find myself enjoying all of that, I wonder, why? Why am I enjoying it? These films have literally no message, no point, no themes. Nothing. Nada. They only exist to cash in on people like me who turn our brain off and enjoy stories and visuals of humans getting brutally murdered. I love brutal and visceral violence, but they need to have a point. Senseless violence is boring. Brutally twisted violent films like Oldboy are memorable because they have a point. An actual story with depth and a layered message that makes it worthwhile, whereas films like Terrifier are just low class senseless trash.
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