look away

[emchy]

and the ONE THING that always bothers me, is violence / abuse towards animals. in films, poems, prose, what have you. don't like it. ever. i don't care if it makes a point, i know about cruelty to innocents and it's not a point i want to see. period.

ok severe reaction. but i just watched a short film that hurt a kitten. it was an animated kitten, but i don't need to cry at my desk at 10am. especially when it's being done for comic / shocking / juxtapositional effect.

i felt the same way about a passage in this one stephen king book. i read all of his work rabidly from age 11 on. and one time, one short character descriptive passage about a cruel farmer and kittens has stuck with me and can bring me to tears in a moment.

meh. i'm too much of a softie.

Comments

[glamtasm.livejournal.com]

No, you're not.

What you describe is exactly the reason that _harbinger_ and I walked out on the Brothers Grimm. There was a scene involving a kitten that was just so casual and unnecessary, and with what seemed to be comic intent that I was galled and horrified. (and it wasn't a particularly good film up to that point, either.)

So we left.

Real cruelty happens all the time, every day, often casually or unknowingly. The last thing that needs to happen is it get played for laughs.

[borggrrl.livejournal.com]

I was once upset by a animated game that involved trying to catch cats that were falling out of the sky. If you missed them, they hit the ground in a gruesome mess. :(

[iluv2bnekked.livejournal.com]

not a softie.. at least, that doesnt make you one. I get upset when people squash insects unnecessarily.