127 Hours?
Jan. 12th, 2011 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmSo 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-01-12 11:00 am (UTC)My gore squick - let me show it to you!;) To give you a clue 28 Days Later and Alien are my absolute limits for anything to do with blood and gore.
I can safely say that(imo) it's not fetishised and it's not punishment. 'Redemtive' would be closer to the mark.
Yes, there is a scene that looks a little CSI-ish but on the whole Boyle presents the cutting scene without embellishment. Which is as it should be.
As a viewer, I felt *compelled* to watch (despite the fact that I thought the arms of the seat were going to crumple under my hands because I was grabbing on for grim death!) as I'd made it that far and if Ralston (James Franco makes this film) could do that, I couldn't wuss out now. It needed to be witnessed... if that makes a blind bit of sense?.
It's not an easy thing to watch but it's worth it. And so my search for a Danny Boyle film that doesn't make me mildly freak out first time I watch it... continues!
I hope that's useful to you.