thread: 2010-11-08 : What I learned from my horror binge
On 2010-11-09, gbsteve wrote:
So I'm just throwing this out too. I'm not sure what it means.
I've only run two Towns but one of these, Fort Lemon, I've run five or six times. It's pretty close to a horror film, there's the claustrophobia of the Dogs operating inside a Fort, the slight creepiness of a very obliging woman being the de facto steward, the fact that some of the Faithful who came across the mountains in winter became cannibals to survive and the point of horror when all this explodes is when there is violence against a pregnant woman from her husband who forced her as her steward to eat human flesh. Are they both monsters, and what of the baby?
There has never been agreement on this last question and generally what happens is someone makes a decision and then they become a monster. It's hard to explain why this is but it seems to be because there is no right thing to do, no answer, anyone who decides is chosing a way that is wrong and horrific to someone else. But although there is ultimately moral disgust, it's reached indirectly via the other horrible elements, juxtaposition perhaps, sick glee, thrills, etc.
The other interesting thing I'd just like to mention is negative capability.
