The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149064 Message #3467435
Posted By: VirginiaTam
17-Jan-13 - 03:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Hanging Tree
Subject: RE: BS: The Hanging Tree
I never saw The Hanging Tree, but I do understand what you are getting at about how the more graphic the violence in films and telly (and while we are at it, video games) the more desensitised the viewer becomes to the violence and gore.
I remember seeing The Greatest Show on Earth and The Birds when I was very young and I was terrorised by day and night mares for long time afterwards. What was my mother thinking?
A simple tv advert on Nickelodeon that had Lassie and an alligator in it back in the mid 80s gave my then 4 year old daughter no end of grief. There was no gore but the music and the images fueled her imagination and instilled an irrational fear that caused night terrors we could not sooth away.
Today, kids seem unfazed by such images and that scares the bejesus out of me.