It seems that many people around the world are searching for
the darkness. Once you've seen "Oldboy," part of a trilogy from
Korea, you start to wonder why there's an obsession for the dark side across
the globe.
Therapists say is has
had quite an impact on the 18 to 30 generation. You wonder if it isn't part of
a global desensitization.
I don't want to sum up the plot of "Oldboy,"
because you can always stream it on Netflix. Suffice to say, I saw enough as a
reporter not to need a trip into hell. People I'm close to in the
aforementioned demographic group don't have the same reaction to violence that
I have.
Vampire stories have been around since "Vlad the
Impaler" surfaced in Transylvania in the last century. (Transylvania was
once part of Austria Hungary, and is now in Romania) Movies about Dracula were
made in the 1930s and people used to joke about them. Now the movies and TV
shows about vampires are omnipresent.
Hollywood producers for the last 30 years have hidden behind
the First Amendment to produce gorier and gorier movies. (But Alexander Meikeljohn
said people need free speech because they vote) The stretching of the First
Amendment to cover carnage got sold to the America people by a ubiquitous media
that wanted to make more money.
But the damage is done. I wonder how different generations
view a hideous auto accident, or a terrorist incident? Is it all just theater?
Does it touch people's souls? How many youth actually believe vampires are
real?
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