Vivian Sobchack's Pstmorbid Condition

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In the “Pstmorbid Condition” by Vivian Sobchack she states that films use to use violence for a purpose to provide meaning and depth but today they grotesquely use violence without meaning. She states that 25 years ago in 1975 that films were using violence, but it was being used artistically to show great meaning in what was truly happening. It was through this kind of intelligent filming that allowed the violence to keep the people interested in trying to interpret what the director was trying to show. It is 25 years later that Sobchack states that films are now over using violence. The films such as Pulp Fiction that have an over use of violence are taking away the meaning that use to be in the violence. They no longer put in the aesthetics

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