Not to may_child: My threshold of tolerance, officially an 8.5 outta 10.
Good to know. ;-) I've yet to really gauge my own threshhold of tolerance. I mean, I've liked ultra-violent movies such as "The Crow," "Pulp Fiction," and the "Kill Bill" movies. However, when "The Passion of the Christ" aired on TMC recently, I could only stomach the first ten minutes.
"Violent" is not a monolithic term. For instance, the violence in "The Crow" is almost entirely bloodless. But even the addition of blood doesn't automatically make me turn away. "Pulp Fiction" is fairly bloody, but its most disturbing scene -- for me, anyway -- is the "adrenaline shot to the heart" scene, which involves no blood at all.
"Kill Bill" is probably as blood-soaked as "The Passion of the Christ," or at least close to it, but its violence is presented in an exaggerated, cartoonish, and sometimes even a comical manner. "Passion," on the other hand, presents its violence in a torturous, solemn manner...according to the people I've talked to who've seen it, and I've talked to quite a few. I somehow doubt they're all downplaying it.
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on 2007-04-08 07:52 am (UTC)Good to know. ;-) I've yet to really gauge my own threshhold of tolerance. I mean, I've liked ultra-violent movies such as "The Crow," "Pulp Fiction," and the "Kill Bill" movies. However, when "The Passion of the Christ" aired on TMC recently, I could only stomach the first ten minutes.
"Violent" is not a monolithic term. For instance, the violence in "The Crow" is almost entirely bloodless. But even the addition of blood doesn't automatically make me turn away. "Pulp Fiction" is fairly bloody, but its most disturbing scene -- for me, anyway -- is the "adrenaline shot to the heart" scene, which involves no blood at all.
"Kill Bill" is probably as blood-soaked as "The Passion of the Christ," or at least close to it, but its violence is presented in an exaggerated, cartoonish, and sometimes even a comical manner. "Passion," on the other hand, presents its violence in a torturous, solemn manner...according to the people I've talked to who've seen it, and I've talked to quite a few. I somehow doubt they're all downplaying it.