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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:02:48 GMT
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- From: DOMINIC PLANT <DPLANT@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
- Subject: Re: Cinema Frustration
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 28 Jan 1993 13:51:20 -0500 from <ellerman@NORFOLK.NADN.NAVY.MIL>
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- On Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:51:20 -0500 Ens Alexander W Ellermann said:
- >
- >Dominic,
- > How does one work out frustrations sitting in a movie theater? When I
- >need to work out frustrations, I step into the ring with one of my buddies
- >& box a few rounds, or lift in the gym, or go for a good, hard run, or maybe
- >just blow up enemy spaceships on my computer. How can sitting in a dark
- >room for two hours watching an actor squeeze a trigger help anyone "work it
- >all out?"
- > Honestly curious,
- > Alex
- When you blow up a "Space Invader" you are venting aggression
- against the "Space Invader" which you would otherwise vent at
- a Human - Space Invader.
-
- In the Cinema you watch someone else shoot the Space Invader,
- the Space Invader still gets shot! its still on a screen and
- in fronth of you, just you dont press the button!
-
- So you get to enjoy the action and excitement without really
- having to partake in the action in reality. Hence the popularity
- of Total Recall, Rambo, Star Wars, James Bond movies, etc.
-
-
- Cinema is a Voyeuristic experience. With aggressive films it
- aggressive Voyerism! Just the same as when you go to a fight
- be it a Wrestlemania or a Boxing match or even if you stop and
- watch a street fight, its because you enjoy the aggression.
- Its part of your basic human psychology, which in modern society
- is repressed as much as possible, so we are presented with
- Football games, Wrestlemania and films all various tokens where
- we can safely express our aggression.
-
- We are all either Aggressive externaly and passive internaly
- or passive externaly and Aggressive internaly. By watching
- Aggressive films we live our aggression internaly in our
- imaginations, which is where we safely prefer to have it.
- If you think of the most aggressive serial killers who are
- very aggressive externaly..... what kind of character do they
- have internaly ? Cold ? Calm ? Sedate ? passive ? Because
- their aggression is totaly expressed there is none residant!
-
- The majority of the people however do not express their
- aggression at least not in reality. Instead they go to
- Wrestlemania and shout and roar kill the ...... whatever!
- They in their imagination live there aggression through
- other people often imaginary.
-
- Have you never at the end of a film felt SAD, UPLIFTED,
- or somesuch emotion. If so then the film the dark room
- has released your emotion, sometimes that emotion that
- is released is aggression. Yet no harm has been done, in
- fact good has been done by its releas you have less to
- carry around, less that you might in times of stress
- chance to vent on a real human you happen on............
-
- Any less curious ?
-
-
- Dominic.
-