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Originally Posted by Fearonsarms
I never thought I'd hear someone say they found Martyrs more disturbing than Salo. I haven't seen Salo so can't comment on it I just wonder if it strays too close to borderline snuff like the original I spit on your grave. But I completely agree with you about Martyrs being torture porn being disguised as deep. It is worrying with torture porn cos its inevitable someone will take it to the extreme and do a snuff film no one has yet that I know of but it seems that's where we are headed if someone finds away to do it without going to jail. I hope I'm just being paranoid.
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The thing with Salo is that most people haven't seen it. So, much like The Human Centipede (which most people haven't seen either) people are coming up with these vastly overblown ideas of what is contained in the film based on a minimal amount of knowledge and hearsay. It's based off of the Marquis De Sade's work, there was a ton of controversy about, the director was even killed possibly just for making it, so Salo has to be an absolute atrocity right? Not at all. Far from it actually. It's no closer to being snuff than any other movie where people are tortured and killed. I think the main difference is that if a person is attentive enough, they can see that Salo is not just another torture flick. While some other similar movie can be watched and forgotten right away since it has no substance past the gore and violence, Salo leaves a lasting impression. It can hit you on a different level when you really think about the big picture of what is happening in the film. Which when talked about later can make people who haven't seen it mistake that intellectual impression for an impression made solely by violence which would be typically the case for other movies of this type.
Like Ferox13 said, there is no "inevitable jump." That's the kind of logic that says all people who watch horror movies or play violent video games turn into violent, sadistic people who will probably end up killing people. Is it a possible jump? Sure. If the person was already headed in that direction. But making horror movies isn't going to make someone go from using foam latex and chopping up real people. Real life just doesn't work that way.