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Would you watch this?

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  • #32
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    I don't have the mentality for this kind of thing at all, I just find it far too upsetting. Even something as tame as "When Stunts go Bad" haunted me for days. Footage of people dying is not for me.
    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    After all the horrifying gore the internet has exposed me to over the years I would consider myself desensitized enough to masturbate to it.
    This is not a proud boast [unzips].

    I LOL'ed!


  • #33
    ronan45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    CardBordWindow wrote: »
    IT's a video of 2 guys from the Ukraine (i think) who kill a guy in the woods with a hammer. They then take a screwdriver to his eyes and abdomen.
    I can skin and gut a rabbit without blinking an eye, but watching that video was horribly disturbing.

    I can watch odd freaky things on the net i have a strong stomach. In fact I have logged into the Young news channel "the YNC" manys the time a lot of off-beat videos there.

    But that 2 guys 1 hammer.... Wow i actually pulled the wire out of the pc i was that freaked out by it. Never witnessed such acts in my life:(


  • #34
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    I tried to watch the bridge before. Had to stop after about 10/15 minutes mainly because I felt incredibly uneasy about how they were speaking of people close to them who jumped, more so then the clips of people jumping.
    /QUOTE]

    Haven;t watched it but apparently the maker of the bridge didn't tell the relatives he had footages of their deaths*.

    Though I wouldn;t watch it myself I can;t see why it shouldn;t be allowed considering im sure "the bridge" was financially beneficial for its makers. And in relation to one being art and the other being exploitation whats the difference, he could sell the footage (possibly adding some post production filters e.g colorize him and grey washout for the rest of it) and hire a philosophy/arts grad to write a 1000 word blurb and suddenly it would be 'art'.

    * I'd also argue that the makers of the bridge were more complicit as even though they were trained in suicide prevention this was not their role and they set out to capture this footage over a period of a year and in effect if they had prevented every suicide they would have failed. An example of how a fairly small group of volunteers can make a major difference in reducing these types of deaths is Foyle Search and Rescue in Derry.


  • #35
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    RDM_83 again wrote: »
    Haven;t watched it but apparently the maker of the bridge didn't tell the relatives he had footages of their deaths*.

    Though I wouldn;t watch it myself I can;t see why it shouldn;t be allowed considering im sure "the bridge" was financially beneficial for its makers. And in relation to one being art and the other being exploitation whats the difference, he could sell the footage (possibly adding some post production filters e.g colorize him and grey washout for the rest of it) and hire a philosophy/arts grad to write a 1000 word blurb and suddenly it would be 'art'.

    * I'd also argue that the makers of the bridge were more complicit as even though they were trained in suicide prevention this was not their role and they set out to capture this footage over a period of a year and in effect if they had prevented every suicide they would have failed. An example of how a fairly small group of volunteers can make a major difference in reducing these types of deaths is Foyle Search and Rescue in Derry.

    Bloody hell that's low. Not quite sure what I was originally expecting from it now as it was quite some time ago when I gave it a look, but seeing that there now, I would never have been interested in it at all.


  • #36
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    3ndahalfof6 wrote: »
    9/11 springs to mind and I am sure most of yis watched the footage from it, those poor souls did not want to die but it was plastered everywhere.
    9/11 was completely different. It was a terrorist attack and yes people jumped from the Twin Towers out of desperation but we all were glued to our screens out of utter disbelief that such a thing could happen. Tony Scott was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour so he probably didn't want to be a burden on his family with it. It's just awful that his death had to be taped at all and that he wasn't able to die without such a gross invasion of privacy.


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  • #37
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No, I wouldn't.


  • #38
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    KKkitty wrote: »
    9/11 was completely different. It was a terrorist attack and yes people jumped from the Twin Towers out of desperation but we all were glued to our screens out of utter disbelief that such a thing could happen. Tony Scott was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour so he probably didn't want to be a burden on his family with it. It's just awful that his death had to be taped at all and that he wasn't able to die without such a gross invasion of privacy.

    Appearently that's not been confirmed.


  • #39
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    I wouldn't watch it.

    Even today, as near as dammit to 11 years after 9/11, I STILL get upset seeing the odd clip of people falling from the towers.

    There aren't too many of them broadcast anymore but you still see them on the likes of Discovery channel and so on in those "i was there" type documentary's.



    I certainly wouldn't want to watch something like Tony Scott (or anyone) jumping to their deaths.


  • #40
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    KKkitty wrote: »
    9/11 was completely different. It was a terrorist attack and yes people jumped from the Twin Towers out of desperation but we all were glued to our screens out of utter disbelief that such a thing could happen. Tony Scott was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour so he probably didn't want to be a burden on his family with it. It's just awful that his death had to be taped at all and that he wasn't able to die without such a gross invasion of privacy.

    Appearently that's not been confirmed.
    Just going by what The Sun said yesterday. Hardly a reputable source I know but if a terminal illness was the reason he did what he did it was probably the only thing he could do so as I said he wouldn't be a burden on his family.


  • #41
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I'd be more upset watching the people jumping from the twin towers because they were fighting for their lives in a desperate situation rather than choosing to end their lives. Not that this is not a sad situation.

    I think it's the people who film something like this rather, than the people who watch, who have the issues. There's an element of human curiosity in watching - death is such a mystery for all of us. Filming it and making it available online is wrong though.


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  • #42
    st3veebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭st3veebee


    The Scott family denied that illness.


  • #43
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    CardBordWindow wrote: »
    IT's a video of 2 guys from the Ukraine (i think) who kill a guy in the woods with a hammer. They then take a screwdriver to his eyes and abdomen.
    I can skin and gut a rabbit without blinking an eye, but watching that video was horribly disturbing.

    Thanks for the explanation. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to **** to that. Thanks for saving me valuable internet masturbation minutes.


  • #44
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Aside from voyeurism or to financially profit from the distress of another human being there is no need for this to be released.

    There is nothing to gain from watching this (If anyone wants to spiel on about it being 'a shared human experience' or 'glimpse into the dark side of a persons soul' or some shíte like that they can fcuk off).

    I have seen the bridge and the hammer video. The bridge is an example of a movie maker crawling his way to fame and wealth over the bodies of dead people, the hammer video is literally a snuff video & thank god they were put down when caught. I'll be skipping this one.


  • #45
    GastroBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    After all the horrifying gore the internet has exposed me to over the years I would consider myself desensitized enough to masturbate to it.
    This is not a proud boast [unzips].

    Don't blame the internet. You should have said;

    "after all the gore that I willingly searched for and watched on the internet"


  • #46
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Bloody hell that's low. Not quite sure what I was originally expecting from it now as it was quite some time ago when I gave it a look, but seeing that there now, I would never have been interested in it at all.

    There's a lot of controversy about that documentary. They got the permit to film without telling the authorities that they intended to film suicides.

    They claim they stopped several people from jumping but they filmed some people for quite a long length of time before they jumped and didn't step in. It's a powerful documentary but one I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with.


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