Recently, TV series that have appeared with many violent elements have caused confusion among audiences, causing many controversies about whether violent elements should be brought to the screen with detailed images. The line between authenticity and the enjoyment of violence has become very fragile.
So, why does the element of violence often appear in movies, and is the image of violence one of the entertainment needs of humans?
Since ancient times, in ancient Roman arenas, Greeks have viewed killing scenes and tamarind blood as an animal of choice. People cheer when the fighters fight to survive together, and when one falls into a pool of blood, the extreme excitement of one person will flourish that is an original instinct.
Nowadays, cinema is also a form of entertainment - a virtual arena. violent action scenes are part of entertainment, although people do not publicly acknowledge this. Of course, it is not entirely just about bringing entertainment elements, violence is often a way to explain the worldview of the script, not a form of recreational violence.
In ancient times, fighting and torturing with sticks was very common. Nowadays, scenes with exaggerated images such as special camera angles depicting the bullet line and describing it as destroying human skin and meat are not uncommon. However, it is almost enthusiastically accepted because it is completely suitable for film situations, it creates motivation for the characters' struggles, or revenge.
To create a reason for the image of violence, the character will be created ironic situations, forced to plunge into a battle to survive and violence becomes the only key, whether killing, robbing, torturing... to survive. Viewers support the main character, but what they want is to enjoy action scenes including violence, and the filmmakers try to create action scenes as many as possible to be as beautiful as possible.
Some films depict violence as a pleasure, although the director explained it as a reality, but it was still rejected by viewers because the value of the film was not enough to erase the feeling of familiarity with the evil and ugliness of life.
So do violent films make people interested in violence that tends to be violent? According to psychologists, there are two tendencies, one is that people can follow the violent trend and the other is to suppress all-power because they see the consequences of witnessing the law of Causes given by films. The above investigations apply to underage people.
In the world of cinema, actor Jennifer Lawrence gave his opinion: We are a film industry, the film industry must have violence and sex. If everything is standard, film art will suffer losses. In the new film Red Sparrow (Shared matter), her character was tortured and raped. In real life, she actively supports the Time's "Up" campaign against sexual violence. For her, movies and real life are two separate things.
In Asia, director Kim Ki Duk is a famous Korean director for his shocking films full of violence and sex. These works have achieved many successes but also caused a lot of controversy. His 6 films of violence and sex are: Bad Guy, The Isle, Address Unknown, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring, Pieta, Moebius. Kim Ki Duk's films have images of violence that are considered to be so cruel, but he always has enough reasons for the violent elements he puts in.
Previously, Vietnamese TV series were often made in a light style with main topics about love and family. Some crime-themed films have elements of criminal action, but the elements of violence are mostly restrained, often only at the level of illustration and not emphasizing or highlighting. Maybe we are gradually changing this.
