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Originally Posted by davem
One of Lal's favourite movies is The Wicker Man (the original). She takes it absolutely seriously & finds the ending horrific.
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Certainly NOT that modern desecration *spits* - I certainly have imagined what I'd like to do to those film-makers...
I like it because it's pure gothic horror, suspense building throughout, surreal moments, black humour...I find that kind of thing genuinely frightening, but the most frightening thing I have
ever seen and ever
will see was Threads. As for traditional horror films, those with suspense like Halloween are scary, those which just have gore are pure comedy. I laughed
all the way through The Evil Dead, the same with The Exorcist and The Omen - both were just stupid.
What makes The Wicker Man frightening is that you can imagine a small community going collectively insane - in fact cults do go insane in this kind of way, and what makes Threads frightening is we're only ever one step away from nuclear holocaust happening. However children do not get possessed by the devil, there's no such thing as an antichrist and the only evil thing that shacks in the woods are likely to contain are loads of woodlice and spiders.
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Originally Posted by SpM
Just because a moral person may have a certain impulse, it does not make that impulse morally acceptable. Nor does having the immoral impulse make them an immoral person, particularly if they would never dream of acting on it.
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It makes you human. We all experience unpleasant feelings from time to time, and many of us hold them all of the time. And you know, being a legal professional, how important it is to be very careful when applying decisions of 'morals' to cases e.g. it may be 'moral' to some religions to hate gays, but a judge cannot ever let off someone who is a gay basher on the basis of the accused's 'moral' grounds. Likewise, if the public were to decide we'd soon have capital punishment back, but our law makers judge this to be immoral and will not allow it. Thankfully! Just one example of how blurred the boundaries really can be...