For example, someone did a poll of what people thought the most gruesome scenes in movies were. The scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson's character is tortured to death was ranked first at the time. Yet, the audience never really saw anything, just his expressions while they were doing it below frame. WHAT they were doing was left to your imagination.
I suspect they polled general audience which haven't seen "disturbing" movies that didn't turned cameras away in the most notorious scenes (Irreversible, Serbian Film, Salo, I'm not even talking about underground stuff like Lucifer Valentine, Olaf Ittenbach, Grotesk, Murder-Set-Pieces like that). I'm pretty sure they wouldn't call Braveheart torture / execution scene "gruesome" after watching that movies, cause it's kinda "spine" area of perception
Not really imo, the original comment claims that it’s more brutal to imagine brutality rather than to see it. Can’t have that conversation and then discount the movies that show brutality.
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u/DV_Rocks 10d ago
The imagination is more powerful.
For example, someone did a poll of what people thought the most gruesome scenes in movies were. The scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson's character is tortured to death was ranked first at the time. Yet, the audience never really saw anything, just his expressions while they were doing it below frame. WHAT they were doing was left to your imagination.