Postmorbid Condition response

In Vivian C. Sobchack essay , “The Postmorbid Condtion”, Sobchack discusses the issue of violence found in films today. Sobchack claims that as time goes on violence begins to become a staple in movies that it has become so commonplace that it would be used for arbitrary themes such as for comedic purposes. Sobchack consistently attacks the issue behind the mutilation and killing of humans in film. Compared to films in the past, movies today make them seem like stuff find in kid shows. It is true that violence can be easily observed in movies today and just maybe we, as an audience, become insensitive toward the human condition but that does not mean that we become robots incapable of emotion because of it. Sobchack states that the killing people in movies like “Pulp Fiction” are pointless and that the death people were meaningless, compared to a film like “Saving Private Ryan” where the death of all the soldiers in the movie was deep and dramatic by graphically depicting their pain as they breathed their last breaths. In my opinion if everybody’s death was depicted this way then basically their meaningless life in their movie would a story in itself. As Quentin Tarintino, the director of “Pulp Fiction” clearly understands about human psychology, movies are for the most part for entertainment purposes and that people like violence. This is easily observed throughout human history, do you remember a little known thing such as the Roman Coliseum and the Gladiators? With that said I believe Sobchack is taking it too far to claim that the insensitive killing of characters in movies is equivalent to being a serial killer of the 60’s and 70’s. In fact Sobchack’s argument further perpetuates the aura of ignorance that I get from her as I read her essay. It really seems that she can’t accept the fact that it is a movie and that it is FAKE and saying otherwise really speaks volumes about what kind of person you really are.