Posted: May 20, 2017 11:13 am
Keep It Real wrote:Then there's all the violence in films - it's ubiquitous. There's also the rise of MMA, boxing, kick boxing etc....people just get off on violence - why else would it be so prevalent in the culture? What's the appeal? All this talk about what women find appealing in men is something of a distraction from the purpose of this thread - it's more about the overriding association between violence and sexuality. I think we like watching violence (in general) because it reminds us of the struggle for sexual supremacy. Stereotypically men like violence more than women do, presumably because they're more genetically invested in participating in the battle for sexual supremacy, but some women like it too, possibly because they like to be close to the hotbed of competition. It's all a tragedy of evolution. Nature is red in tooth and claw.
I will take a wild guess, and will also welcome correction/addition as it does not compute to me, that people like to be lets say shocked (violence) or scared (horror) by movies.
Personally, it does not work for me. Watching people suffer, be it in a movie, does not make me feel well. When I was a kid I was not subjected to almost any movies with violence as for some reason communists were not making violent movies and lets say Hollywood ones were not available. However, I've seen good chunk of war and holocaust docus and it made me feel so bad that I became pacifist ( I reason). So much for cool story.
So yes, why are some people fascinated by violence in movies?