2022. 12. 15 Thu

Late-night movie near Sony Center: Terrifier 2. S who chose it could barely watch and kept jerkily pulling my hand over his eyes as it was extremely gory, to the extent that one was forced to acknowledge the most meticulous professionalism in the genre. Disfiguring a human body and with it humanness to the level of such exaggeration made the whole bloody exercise appear rather comical. As real as all the brain, eyeballs and intestines that spill out and are torn apart, mashed and shoved up somewhere where they shouldn’t belong might appear, the context is simply too ridiculous even as fiction. But as I write about this comedy I have to recall what shocked Ivan years ago at one cinema: he was watching 1912 and later he told me how he was appalled by all the other german audiences who were plainly laughing at so many gruesome scenes of war. At that time we talked about the german mentality and certain entertainment they seem to find in violence. So I cannot help but think: have I also become emotionally as sadistic as these Arians?