I've been watching a lot of war films and TV shows lately that are pretty gruesome with lots of blood and guts. I've become so used to seeing all of this kind of stuff through these mediums and it got me thinking...has our generation become so desensitized because these images are constantly being shown to us?
Let's start off with Inglorious Basterds. I saw this a few weeks ago and there's just this one scene which is so disgusting and vomit worthy, yet after it happened once, from then on out I wasn't grossed out by it at all and then when I talked to my dad about it, he found differently. For those who have seen it, I'm referring to the Americans and their "souvenirs", for those who haven't you can find it here. Its not very pretty, just to warn you.
Then there's other movies like Pearl Harbour where men are blown apart, burnt half to death and their insides are on the outside and again, after seeing it once I wasn't disgusted at all. Same goes for the mini-series The Pacific and Band of Brothers.
Even the government smoking and car crash ads have stopped affecting me because I've seen them all too often over the years. They just don't have the element of shock anymore. Even though they're showing kids my age who do the same things as I do but who end up either paralysed or dead.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some cold-hearted, emotionless bitch. I do care about all these things and I do find it sad but I've just become so used to seeing these images that the impact has been lost on me. Makes me wonder what they'll be allowed to show on TV when I have kids. Will a line be drawn or will these images become standard on billboards and at bus stops in the near future? And how effective will they still be?
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