The End of Junior Theme, But Not of Film Violence

Junior Theme is finally coming to an end. After weeks of research, I've learned an incredible amount about the increasingly violent nature of movies. Unfortunately, it only looks like the violence in movies will worsen as years go by. We see violence all across television and other types of social media every day. Filmmakers feel the need to heighten the violence in their movies in order to match the amount of violence seen across television and the internet. With Youtube and 24 news coverage, graphic videos are always able to be found and watched. People are used to consuming tons of violence each and every day, so it is not surprising that filmmakers have been influenced to pump their films full of graphic images.

Sadly, people have also become desensitized to violence due to the constant exposure to violence through television and the internet. Yet, moviemakers still want to have an effect on their viewers. In the eyes of filmmakers, the only way to create a shock for the audience is to increase the amounts of violence in films with even more guns, explosions, blood, and death. As technology advances and people find more ways to access real-life violent images and video clips, this desensitization will only worsen. Therefore, at this rate, films will only increase in their amounts of violence. Somehow, the world is going to have get used to nonstop violence in all forms of media. Yet, it seems like we are pretty close to that point already.