1. The Butterfly Effect
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Tusk
The theme all these films have in common is related to sexuality issues. I sneaked into the theater to see The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher. The movie was released in 2004, so I was fourteen years old and extremely impressionable. My cousins were with me there, at least one of them in that theater. I think we watched a few movies back to back that day.
I looked on in horror as I saw child porn being made and to this day, I can still see that scene (thanks a ton, photographic memory). CHILD MOLESTATION IS THE LOWEST ACT THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE COMMITTED BY THE SCUM OF UNDESERVED LIFE. Other than that, the sickening portrayals through time and tries to fix everything in the past made by psych patient, Evan (little did I know I'd be visiting several wards myself one day), are enough to make your skin crawl.
The poor man tries time and again to reverse the injustices inflicted upon his friends based on decisions they'd made, some obviously that they hadn't, and he ends up deciding that the love of his life and in an alternate ending where he strangles himself in the womb, the entire world is better off without him.
It's a fucking tragedy and I was far too young to watch it. Moving on...
A Clockwork Orange is a strange piece of work that many guys in my high school class enjoyed, so I decided to give it a watch when it was on Netflix for a time (not sure if it's still there). I was about 19 at the time, had been on the receiving end of "the old in-out" enough times to know what it's about but not enough to be totally desensitized to the act.
I hated it because I didn't understand what was supposed to be so great about it. Here we have a young sociopath, exposed to the ills of society (drugs, rape, etc.), in love with "ultra violence," looked up to by his cronies and apparently by oddball viewers alike.
I have to admit, the "Singing in the Rain" scene tickled me a bit, but most of the film was a trainwreck I couldn't look away from, especially the scene where they prop open his eyelids (hence why I don't want lasik).
Tusk is still on Netflix, where I watched it several days ago and I had a hard time getting it out of my head. This emotionally unavailable comedian guy is dating a hot chick, who is banging his best friend behind his back while he's on the road doing comedy and fucking other women.
She doesn't know for sure, but his best friend does, so he doesn't feel badly about the ordeal so much until something awful happens to their mutual acquaintance...I won't spoil it, but it's gruesome and impossible to unsee.
Films have the power to change our brains, our way of thinking based on the sounds and images we take in. I have to remind myself that every time I think of watching something. It's difficult for me to sit through an entire movie these days, considering.
The way we respond to the films is the important thing. If the main character in A Clockwork Orange had watched the Butterfly Effect, he probably would have shown little to no emotion, and that my friends, makes for a sick, sad world.
I'm not saying that we should sweep all the darkness of the world under the rug, but I wish people would just unleash their creepy hang-ups without hurting anybody, physically or mentally in a place where nobody has to see it happen and JUST BE HONEST.
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Tusk
The theme all these films have in common is related to sexuality issues. I sneaked into the theater to see The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher. The movie was released in 2004, so I was fourteen years old and extremely impressionable. My cousins were with me there, at least one of them in that theater. I think we watched a few movies back to back that day.
I looked on in horror as I saw child porn being made and to this day, I can still see that scene (thanks a ton, photographic memory). CHILD MOLESTATION IS THE LOWEST ACT THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE COMMITTED BY THE SCUM OF UNDESERVED LIFE. Other than that, the sickening portrayals through time and tries to fix everything in the past made by psych patient, Evan (little did I know I'd be visiting several wards myself one day), are enough to make your skin crawl.
The poor man tries time and again to reverse the injustices inflicted upon his friends based on decisions they'd made, some obviously that they hadn't, and he ends up deciding that the love of his life and in an alternate ending where he strangles himself in the womb, the entire world is better off without him.
It's a fucking tragedy and I was far too young to watch it. Moving on...
A Clockwork Orange is a strange piece of work that many guys in my high school class enjoyed, so I decided to give it a watch when it was on Netflix for a time (not sure if it's still there). I was about 19 at the time, had been on the receiving end of "the old in-out" enough times to know what it's about but not enough to be totally desensitized to the act.
I hated it because I didn't understand what was supposed to be so great about it. Here we have a young sociopath, exposed to the ills of society (drugs, rape, etc.), in love with "ultra violence," looked up to by his cronies and apparently by oddball viewers alike.
I have to admit, the "Singing in the Rain" scene tickled me a bit, but most of the film was a trainwreck I couldn't look away from, especially the scene where they prop open his eyelids (hence why I don't want lasik).
Tusk is still on Netflix, where I watched it several days ago and I had a hard time getting it out of my head. This emotionally unavailable comedian guy is dating a hot chick, who is banging his best friend behind his back while he's on the road doing comedy and fucking other women.
She doesn't know for sure, but his best friend does, so he doesn't feel badly about the ordeal so much until something awful happens to their mutual acquaintance...I won't spoil it, but it's gruesome and impossible to unsee.
Films have the power to change our brains, our way of thinking based on the sounds and images we take in. I have to remind myself that every time I think of watching something. It's difficult for me to sit through an entire movie these days, considering.
The way we respond to the films is the important thing. If the main character in A Clockwork Orange had watched the Butterfly Effect, he probably would have shown little to no emotion, and that my friends, makes for a sick, sad world.
I'm not saying that we should sweep all the darkness of the world under the rug, but I wish people would just unleash their creepy hang-ups without hurting anybody, physically or mentally in a place where nobody has to see it happen and JUST BE HONEST.
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