thread: 2007-10-11 : Blood Meridian
On 2007-10-18, Vincent wrote:
When I was writing the game I wore holes in that CD.
So I posted about the Columbine security videos yesterday and I've been thinking about this fun thing. Here's what I think: enjoying watching the Columbine security videos would be the thrill of vicarious psychopathy. Enjoying watching Unforgiven or The Devil's Rejects for instance is pretty different.
There are some obvious things: the Columbine security videos show real violence, not special effects; Unforgiven has, like, incidental music and reaction shots and so on to signal its unreality. Not only is it not real, it's unmistakably not real.
I think there's a less obvious thing, though, which is that the Columbine shooting is a crap story.
