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[QUOTE=Sam@Cult Labs;bt1312]Hostel and Saw are more like a continuation of amoral shock cinema in the Guinea Pig style. Exercises in sadism for entertainment purposes, made Hollywood slick for the multiplex. Torture-porn is now popular culture. Is there an argument for taking the genre format and repurposing it as a metaphor for something deeper? Saw is particularly worrying, as it's a globe striding franchise, spreading braindead torture for tortures sake. Hostel is a tabloid baiting snorefest which again, seeks to test the audience like an endurance race, without any meaning or reason outside the desire to gross out for extra dollars. Plus there's Human Centipede, seemingly produced for the kind of people who enjoy sharing their paedophile punishment fantasies on tawdry Facebook groups. A Serbian film doesn't have any thoughtless irony and contains levels of metaphor and meaning that simply wouldn't occur to the average gore porn director seeking to get the next headline. Perhaps the atrocities in Serbia have had a direct influence on the filmmakers (in fact that's a certainty). How do you comment on genocidal acts, mass rape and the post-war explosion in sick and explotative gonzo porn from former Eastern Bloc countries? In a world of free access to the worst kind of content, artists should be free to comment on the social effects of such a phenomena. Of course, it could be argued that you can make such points without infant rape and sexual beheadings and I'd be interested to get an unbiased opinion from someone who lived in the country during the events that influenced the movie...[/QUOTE]
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