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Crime movies have been a major genre in movie history. But, why has the people allow these type of movies to become such a giant field? There has always been protests about violent pictures, like video games and comics. We sometimes hear about crimes that were affected by scenes from games and comics, but hardly from movies. The country with the biggest gun problem creates the most movies with gun-fights.
So, how are crime movies accepted by the crowd? The way is how to show the crime as an act of justice, or to get the audience to feel sympathy to the character. For example, evenge is a famous factor which is used from the past (The Outfit(1973), Ocean's Thirteen(2007)).In a recent movie I saw, 3 Days had a motive to save someone. All of these factors are used to change the criminal into a hero. However, a pursuit of heroism does not only mean good. First, such heroism may dissolve the character's feeling of sin. As movies become more entertaining, such conflicts become postponed, or not shown at all. And another, is that the movie loses the crime as the main point and becomes more of an action movie-the good guys beating up the bad guys.
There had always been the general public view against crime movies starting from the late 20th century. However, they usually ended up as unfounded stereotypes made from apparent relations. The reason why this view became more active and major in recent times is simply because the science behind it caught up.
ReplyDeleteResearch has shown that concentrated imagination has as much influence on the mentality and physicality of a human being as anything that is perceived or interpreted in reality. For example, if you concentrated hard on imagining practicing the piano (correctly), you will get as better as people who actually practice the piano. Therefore, it would be safe to say that prolonged exposure to secondary experiences in violent movies will definitely alleviate the mental fatigue that one would normally experience when encountering death or violence of any sort, perhaps to the extent where underdeveloped humans would commit such violence without hesitation. Yes, there is science behind why secondary experience in violence is looked down upon.
Obviously, most of the general public couldn't care less about what I said above, and most of them definitely do not just ignore crime in crime movies, nor is the crime overwhelmed by another theme in the movie. The movie does not dissolve (←that's the correct spelling btw) the feeling of guilt or sin, but the audience does so by themselves, which is primarily why the aforementioned logic pulls through about why crime movies are mentally unhealthy.
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ReplyDeleteBecause I'm not interested in crime, I've seen wacthed few films of this kind. I think, as you say, the fighting scenes attract people. It is same as fantasy movies.