The Screen that Divides Violence
The Untold. Directed by Herman Yau. 1993 Honestly, it was really hard for me to see comedy in this film at all. The violence was so shocking and graphic, it was hard to watch how far the director would push to shock. The first thing that came to mind when watching this film was, why? Why show such vivid violence of a serial killer? Why do we need that perspective? Other questions that came out of this was, why do we, as spectators, have the desire to witness this violence? Where does this desire stem from? A lot of these questions I still have yet found the answers to, at least for my own spectatorship, but I have some thoughts about the potentials of why. The screen divides us (reality/ the spectator) from the fantasy that is presented on screen ( The world constructed from the mind). Though, at the same time this can be contradicted because parts of media find its way into our reality, masking itself as "real". An example of this is the media constructi...
