127 Hours?

Jan. 12th, 2011 01:32 am
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So I need to watch stuff for SAG Awards voting.

But...

127 Hours ...

It's not a gore squick. But about the only stuff I can't watch (which is why I still haven't seen that movie I wanted to see about the clone kids) is medical stuff that's presented as punishment/fetishization.

Or rather, it's not that I can't watch it. It's that it makes me not okay. For like days. Weeks. Even when it's the right choice in the art in question.

(see: the Valerie's Letter part of the V for Vendetta film. It's 6 or so minutes of PERFECT filmmaking. I'd be regretful if I'd hadn't watched it. But even thinking of it makes me feel in my head a way I don't know how to describe to you, but it's super fucking unpleasant -- if you've read posts I've made in the past (that are locked now) about my medicalized childhood this makes slightly more sense

other examples of what I can't take: that experimentation scene in Being Human).

Anyway, should I watch 127 Hours or not? I figure since the dude's alone, I'm probably okay. But cameras can be as punishing as other characters.

Date: 2011-01-12 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ubixtiz.livejournal.com
I haven't seen the examples you mention, but I wouldn't describe the gore in 127h as punishment or fetishisation.

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