Discusting Tv

[teacake44]

I don't normally bother watching films on TV any longer, its pretty obvious that producers have one goal in mind, to cram as much violence in as possible in the hope of capturing an audience.

In view of what's been happening in the news over the last few weeks, out of curiosity I watched what I knew would be a violent film, ( Dog Eat Dog ) Nicolas Cage, and it didn't disappoint as regards to the appalling violence at the very beginning, of a knife stabbing frenzy, along with a shooting, and the violence continued throughout the whole film.

The other film also I watched was ( The November man ) Pierce Bronson, again relied on knife stabbing, and continued violence. Is it a case of, you make your own bed, so sleep in it?
Also I think that Mary Whitehouse back in 1963/64 was very advanced in her thoughts, and condemned / opposing such violence on TV. These films are not doing us any favours getting violence into the minds of already unbalanced individuals, are they?? Your thoughts would be welcome.

[andres]

[email protected] beg your pardon. Were you addressing that remark to me ?

[pixie374]

No, Andres- to Teacake x

[andres]

phew ! I thought that I was in the firing line for a moment.

[pixie374]

Not at all, sorry! X

[Mozz71]

//going to leave the post as it is now, and let the fools play with themselves//

That will be all the porn making us do that I guess.

[owdbob]

Seems like a simple premise, but there are no simple answers. Jut been reading Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" describing the 14th Century. Mob violence, religious and other wars, mass murder, public maimings and dismembering - and no TV! We are still a relatively non-violent bunch, and knife crime is largely confined to the young and deprived. Forget the TV, sort out this ghetto-ised and disfunctional society, a society where housing has become unaffordable, jobs unstable, and the post-Brexit future unpredictable. Never mind the small screen, it's just a distraction from the bigger picture - one our present crop of Tory know-
nothings have no interest in repairing.

[Spicerack]

There has been an explosion, I think it's fair to say, in murder rates since the 1960's.
What might have happened since then to cause it?
Violent films, perhaps. Abolition of the death penalty, maybe. I can't help feeling there's a great big elephant in the room that I'm missing.
And it's not austerity, owdbob.

[teacake44]

Nibble away at the smaller problems, that are encouraging the larger problems.