thread: 2010-11-15 : Scifi vs Horror x3
On 2010-11-16, Simon C wrote:
I don't watch horror movies because they're too scary, so this is all coming directly out of my butt,
but!
There's a thing about moral clarity, right? Like, we think that the teenagers might deserve to be slashed up or whatever, but we hardly ever think that the slasher is right to do so. Or at least, in horror movies it's usually about some affront to the natural moral order being rectified. Maybe I've only seen bad horror movies though. It seems like usually the horrific thing exists to expose some moral transgression, and to absolve people of that transgression when it is overcome.
But in good sci-fi, it's not so much about transgressions, and maybe more about revelation and freedom and change, rather than absolution and restitution of the norm.
But what do I know!
I don't really rate Word for World. It's kind of preachy and reads a bit too much like an anthro 101 text. I really like Four Ways to Forgiveness though. You should read that.
