I watched “The Chaser” two weeks ago. In short, it’s about a man who is on the track of a serial killer.
After I watched the movie, I had trouble to sleep because of the images that I saw from the movie. The movie described how the killer murdered people in detail and reflections scared me, so that I was strained while I watched the movie. This recent box-office hit movie seen by more than 2 million viewers in 10days.
However, the point of my writing is the ripple effect of this movie. There are many murderers who declare that they learned techniques to kill people from mass media. This is why we should be more careful to choose a subject for producing entertainments. Some producers say that they made films based on real cases to arouse attention to crimes. Don’t you think that it can be a cause of copycat crimes? In conclusion, I think we have to be prudent since impatience lead to more crimes and victims as well.
How do you think?
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I agree your decision. I believe that movie makers have a responsible for their sicial effect. Although they say that they jush express what they want, they have to take making bad movies into account. They are involved in society, and so It would be better to make good movie which has a positive effect on society.
Personally, I’m skeptical about the idea that serial killers copy what they see in movies. I don’t think most people are capable of being serial killers. I wouldn’t be able to do it, would you?
If you don’t think you could do it, is it reasonable to think most other people could do it because of what they see in a movie?
(Studies show that the people who engage in serial killing are usually sociopaths anyway — they don’t have the kind of human emotions most of us have. There’s a growing argument that this is genetic or developmental — that is, that it’s not a choice, but rather a compulsion based on some kind of abnormal psychological or neurological “wiring.” Which REALLY makes it hard to believe media caused serial killing to happen. It might encourage nonviolent psychopaths to start being violent, but there’s no evidence of that as far as I know. Lots of psychopaths — the people without the kind of emotions we have — aren’t violent, but are just effective manipulators… CEOs, salespeople, businesspersons, dominating parents/spouses, or exploiters of the opposite sex.)
Also, as an artist (a fiction writer), I really start to feel nervous when people demand films and books that have a “positive effect on society.” Why don’t people demand that of businesses that make millions of dollars and pollute the world? Some art has to show us our dark side, our secrets, our problems. Art has to be critical and sometimes even negative. Most important, art has to be free.
That said, some films are just gross. SAW, for example, made me feel quite ill — emotionally, that is. Today, I saw a cat run over, and seeing death for real — even just a little cat being hit by a car — makes movies full of death and destruction so much less glamorous.