
Is movie violence convincing us that we’re weak? Restoring our experience of gore
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I’ve spent my entire life despising gory media, hiding in my room during family movie nights or covering my eyes at horror movie group hangouts. Until! Until I witnessed minorities inflicting injuries in movies. Here’s another journey of Yasmin realising she feels weakened as a woman because our societies spend their time and money trying to persuade us of an illusory inferiority.
Literature: “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” Kimberley Crenshaw (intersectionality);
“Black Skin, White Masks” Frantz Fanon (p192);
“Désirer la violence” Chloé Thibaud (p174, 190);
Movies: “Django Unchained” and “Kill Bill” Quentin Tarantino;
“The Woman King” Gina Prince-Bythewood;
“Bottoms” Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott;
“Fleabag” Phoebe Waller-Bridge (s2e3);
“Taken” Pierre Morel.
Side-note: I use "person of color" in this ep and not my specific origins in aims of acknowledging a shared experience of discrimination across minority groups (even though I think I end up shortening to colored? Which is definitely not an exampe to follow, sorry about that)