They revel at all the special effects, the explosions, the witty dialogue and the fancy camera angles. Teenagers love these things as well, if not more than adults. Children also view these kinds of movies. .
Violence and gore in motion pictures has increased a huge amount over time. I grew up with violent movies. I remember when I was younger watching "Poltergeist" and movies like "It." These movies contained lots of gore for their time. Today, as I look back at them, the levels of violence in those movies seem almost laughable. Poorly constructed special effects and hardly believable death sequences. In 2002, a movie came out called "Cabin Fever." This movie is the goriest film I have ever seen. It's chalked full of pussing sores and blood soaked bodies, a lot of death and mayhem. The real question is: Are we becoming numb to this carnage? I believe that we are in a way, but not to the extent that when something like what is seen in a movie happens in real life we can just take it all in like it's nothing. People will always stand stunned and stare at an accident, but movies and the media did not make us curious. Movies do not cause us to not feel guilt, to loose sympathy. Those who do not feel guilt for committing an act of violence or for staring at someone that has been horribly victimized, they are the ones that have issues. The real world is much more frightening that the fictional stories of movies. War stories can be a thousand times more gruesome and impressionable coming from a withered, old war veteran. Children can go to bed with nightmares from these ghoulish tales. .
Movies can make nightmares occur to children just the same. The difference is that the war story was true and most of what's in the theatres is fiction. One of the biggest controversies is about children and how violence affects them. Most of society believes that violence in movies contributes to violence in children.
