tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204080274406469.post2511571103205478920..comments2023-05-27T01:23:41.984-07:00Comments on Barbaric Poetries: Face Down.christopher lirettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07995726854485863726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204080274406469.post-27972080355877997862011-02-12T19:13:18.501-08:002011-02-12T19:13:18.501-08:00Cool song and fantastic video. It does a really gr...Cool song and fantastic video. It does a really great job of relating a household shattered by domestic abuse to a visual of physical destruction of the objects in the household. This is a also a smart move because it can show the violence while maintaining the dignity of the female protagonist. A more direct approach, such as actually showing violence against the girl or even letting an actor play the man, would have been less effective at showing the girl's isolation and of succeeding artistically, because people just don't like watching a man beat a woman. I think that it's interesting that in a blog focused on violence, it's okay to celebrate, say, videos of zombies ripping a man's head apart, but at least to me it would be too discomforting to watch a man beat a woman in a song about domestic abuse. I guess it's only when violence is extreme and sensationalized that we can separate it from real life. When violence seems too real, it can be a lot more discomforting than sensational violence, even if the act itself is more mild or less gory.Andrew Dobersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940181963275502895noreply@blogger.com