ScreamShort conversation after viewing...
(Knocked Out Loaded and I were talking about
Phantom Thread and different ways films challenge us.)
Sandy: ...I was super challenged this evening!KOL: In a good way?Sandy: I don't know! I watched Scream.KOL: Sandy: People getting mutilated, hacked up, shot, stabbed... This is something people enjoy? They like the adrenaline rush? KOL: MaybeSandy: I don't know... I feel a little less human, like it brought something into me that diminishes me some. KOL: So, in a way you feel that you have hurt yourself?Sandy: It's as if I need to replace what I saw with other things, like the need to heal my soul, I guess.KOL: I sense that it was a less than a good experience.Sandy: It's hard to define good. I'm not desensitized from watching numerous horror movies, so it's raw to me. I'm an empath for goodness sake! I don't have enough protective filters!KOL: Your empathic capacities means that you enjoyed Scream less? Sandy: I don't watch films lightly. They affect me.KOL: That is a cool aspect. Scream's stupid setup never takes me there. I remain unaffected because there is so little realism there from the get go.Sandy: The blood KOL: It is just paint!Sandy: It is?! KOL:I hope! Sandy: Why can't I sit back unattached and say, "It's just paint"? ...In these type of movies, I'm the type to clutch someone's arm and peak out from under a blanket... It must be why guys like to watch horror with their dates. KOL: That is a valid point I never have thought of!Sandy: Seems pretty smart. And the real value I see in such films. KOL: It makes perfect sense! We have deconstructed the genre!
I think I came at horror backwards. I've bypassed all the modern classic horror films and went right into the meta spoof ones, mainly
Scream and
Cabin in the Woods. Perhaps this way, if I do watch the others, I will have one level of separation from them and can watch with a more neutral eye. I'll take any buffering I can get!
Personally, I was very impressed with
Scream. I didn't know the story, so everything was new to me and it unfolded as if I were sitting in a theatre in 1996. Pretty neat trick, which is a big anomaly, I'm sure! A little horror goes a long way, but I have
Alien sitting here at my desk and now that I've had a week to decompress from
Scream, it's time to dive back in! Wish me luck.