Recently saw an old video of Adam Lanza (school shooter) playing dance dance revolution really well. I had seen it forever ago but recently stumbled on it again. Without context it’s just some skinny kid crushing it at DDR. But, with hindsight its one of the most uncomfortable videos to watch I can think of. So, media of any kind that isn’t inherently a problem but with additional context becomes freaky.
Alter your perspective a bit. That video shows the duality of the human condition. Everybody has multiple sides. Wife beaters can be wonderful to their dogs, or excellent mentors at work. We are all capable of incredible charity and cruelty at the same time.
Look at it not as a creepy video of someone that did something wrong, but instead a sad video showing the lost human potential that was corrupted by some force in his life.Yes… that’s exactly why it makes me so uncomfortable.
Being comfortable with ambiguity is a life skill
lol people downvoting reality. Sorry life is ambiguous and the sooner you figure that out and learn to cope the easier it gets
Evil is banal. And, actually, good tends to be quiet, as well.
The Wizard of Oz, because of what the actors, especially Judy Garland, went through.
The Shining, because of how Kubrick treated Shelley Duvall.
Powder and Jeepers Creepers, because of how Victor Salva emphatically put his own predilections into his work.
“Skyrim in Real Life” series by JinnKid
The guy shot his his wife and her friend, murder. The wife is heard filming the videos, the gun he used is sometimes visible in the videos.
apt install reiserfsprogsTwo female, a fecal matter, and a large mug
Not sure you’re understanding the question unless your definition of innocuous is wildly different then mine.
A man standing over a jar
The silence: deafening
Anything on the BBC in the 70s and 80s.
Ha! Some dumbass jumped in the tiger enclosure! Get mauled, nerd!
Learns context… Oh. Fuck… Damn.
OK, you gotta elaborate on this one.
Senior coroner Nicola Mundy said he had a history of mental illness, a diagnosis of schizophrenia and had suffered previous bouts of psychosis. His family had raised concerns about his contact with Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Trust, the hearing was told.
So buddy had a bunch of mental health issues and committed accidental suicide by big cat in a psychotic episode? If so, damn, that’s a gnarly way to go out.
Look on the BBC website.
A whole lot of normal, popular media ends up having pretty disturbing messages and biases baked in.
For example, most historical fiction is going to whitewash the past in order to have likeable (to a modern audience) characters. Another one: movies about authority figures tend to have them causally doing crimes, or war crimes.
It’s not even a deliberate propaganda thing (with a few notable exceptions). Entertainment and pandering is the main business, whatever message comes second. And, producers come from a certain background with certain biases, which is why realistic depictions of poverty, or even lower middle class life, are super rare.
Pretty sure there’s surveillance video of a guy in Boston forgetting his backpack in 2013. Minutes later, three people were dead and hundreds injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.
watched a video of a man butchering a pig while naked.
it wasn’t a pig…
Not sure that’s innocuous to start with. I mean, I’d expect at the very least you need to wear a hairnet.
