saltburn and media desensitization

[@Jumper_Star]

The videos on Facebook piss me off so much. I can't go on Facebook anymore without seeing someone being blown up shot alive or decapitated. it's kind of fucked up to know that younger children use Facebook now and are most likely being subjected to this. I myself know that unrestricted Internet access or even restricted Internet access with the ability to get uncertain websites and apps isn't good. The one thing I would say for parents nowadays is to monitor their kids whilst they are browsing the Internet or any sort of technology like that. something is simple as Facebook could seem so harmless and messed up peoples heads and desensitize them in the process

[@kimransaur]

This is so true. Although I do watch graphic movies like Saw and so on, I do agree that certain scenes in Saltburn were just weirrdd. And it is sad that media does not have the right restrictions for especially for the younger audiences. Even apps for kids, such as KZbin Kids, can still show graphic or inappropriate content.

[@BridgetAnnika]

there are plenty of films that pull of graphic s*x or violence really well, but in Saltburn it just feels incredibly strange and unnecessary. you are absolutely right that they just put these shock-value moments into films in hopes of getting the people talking. great video!

[@trenton9]

Thank you for putting this out there. I agree. I would add a modifier to the word "shocking." I would call the scenes "shockingly gross." While, yes, there are grosser and more shocking things flashing across social media every day, there is something especially damaging and pretentious about the mainstreaming of edge lord grossness in mass entertainment, where every shocking gross fantasy competes on film to out-shock and out-gross the film that came before. Where is the bottom floor to this? I say this as one who is far from thin-skinned. I'm just unimpressed and concerned for the minds being molded by this. It's leaves its effect on all of us in ways we don't often recognize.

[@possomt6211]

I see this a lot when people talk about horror movies, and how it seems theres genres now that are just torture p@rn and people saying they are not phased by it. But i really cant relate or understand why someone would want to watch or even make those kind of movies (eg a Serbian film)