Eduardo Gallegos

Composition and Rhetoric

Enrique Wong

Monday, 3th of May of 2010

Is Violence Normal in Our Society?

Today, violence is so common in our society; we can see people arguing, fighting and even the one who think that are not aggressive, well those are the most aggressive people. There are many channels of violence that we are living with every second. For example the TV set, computers, pornography, sexual commercials, radio, stadiums, etc. In general we can see violence everywhere, we just need to sit down in any place and just wait for two minutes, and we will hear people talking, saying bad words, and thousand of things that might be normal for everybody. I am sure that there will be some people that will be against me, saying that not all the people are violent, but the truth is that yes they are. I would like to make them remember when they had a like discussion or arguing with some business partner or a sister, well in their minds, there was a little bit of violence, trying to make that person to understand what you want to explain. We are people that always like to have the reason, it is hard to accept when we are mistaken and that might cause sometime anger with yourself or somebody else.

In the case of the movie Funny Games, I think that was one of the best movies that I had seen. There are many reasons to think so. For instance, when I was watching the movie, I started to get in the movie, so I was thinking of some options about how I can escape if I were a member of that family. I could think a lot of my reactions when I was watching it, and I could conclude that all the time I was thinking of killing or trying to do something to those guys until I can save the family. This movie made me got out of the box, made me think that there is a lot of violence in my head, and in my actions. It is clear that I am not as aggressive as I think, but there are a lot of facts that if they are necessary, like a need to escape or safe my family, I will not doubt to react like that.

The idea of this interesting movie is to make the audience to feel some of the pain of that family by been a victim of the violence, I am not saying that this movie is really bloody and a gore movie but, we can see how involving it is. At the begging we can see that this is not a typical movie from Hollywood, and that of course is not the idea of Funny Games; the essence of this movie is to disturb your feeling, by damaging and killing a happy family. The reason that they are making that family to suffer a lot is because they want to capture your attention by using one of the most important pillars of a person that is your own family. There are really heavy scenes that gave a big impression like when the killer shot his shotgun and destroys the child´s head. For me that was really impacting, because I have a little baby and I felt that I was the father and felt really bad about it.

Another scene that I was really impressed was in the moment when the mother could have the opportunity to take the shotgun and shot to one of the bad guys. To be honest I felt good when I saw that, because in my opinion, if I were her, I would do the same thing. And the sad part is that I am part of the violence, just because I thought that, that reaction was good, but the thing is that you are using violence to stop violence. This contradiction makes no sense of our principles and manners. It is totally the opposite, and not only because some people think that it is not violence, it is a way to survive. I am wondering, if I have the option to escape from the killers, and I kill them to be free, Am I really free? Well it really depends of the angle of the answer, in some point of view, I am free, I am safe, and I could escape from the bad guys. But am I totally free in my mind? To be frank, you are rotten in your mind, there is no sense to be free by using the violence; you are just another new member of the violence.

There are other facts about the movie that I paid attention and it was that each scene took a lot of time until they change to the next one, for example when the child try to escape out of the house, they filmed at least one minute the entire house form outside, making the audience to desperate for knowing what else is going to happen. We are people that to be honest, we like to see violence at movies, but not in this way, and we always want that the good people destroy and win to the bad people. But, this is totally the opposite of a normal movie, this try to create anxiety because you don´t really know what else is going to happen.

There is a phrase that I think it will be appropriately to this essay, and is “the appearance of a person, might be cheating on you”; well this is really a good example of the bad guys because them seems very polite, dressing white shorts and color of t-shirts, that made me think that there were good people and respectful, but we could see that it wasn’t like that. Another example of those false appearances is when we hear at the news everyday that some taxi drivers were assaulted by some good looking guys that were dressing smoking.

I could take some good things about this movie. First, I learned that watching a movie, you can be violent even if you are not moving, but you are thinking a lot of but thinks that you would do if you were one of the characters of the movie. Second, anxiety or desperation might cause on you violence reactions. Third, you need to be polite all the time if you want to receive the same thing.

The sexual commercials are just trying to catch the attention of the people and of course sell their products. They do not really think about of the problems that can appear with those commercials. By selling cigarettes, or publicity of discotheques, well there are many things that in the future, young people will see everything normal, there will be more drug addicts, more alcoholics, more diseases, and a lot of bad things that will affect the society in general.

For some people drinking alcohol is nothing to do with violence. For the company that sells these products are the same ideas, it is not bad for consumers. What they do not see, or do not want to see is that when somebody drinks alcohol, the control of their sense started to be harder, and they can produce many things like street fights, murders, discussions with their partners and so many things that they cannot really control.

One of the best movies that can explain the violence and gore is Saw. The Director of this movie wants to show the audience that you have to pay for all the bad things that you did in the past by suffering. You have to play some games and do humiliating things to survive or just face your actions by dying.

This movie is a good example of violence, gore and really bloody movie, because there are a lot of people that love to see this kind of movies. The question here is why do the people like to watch these movies? And there are many answers, people feel good when they see suffering to others, their pain, make the audience happy. This is crude but is the reality of our society; people just want to satisfy the need of seen violence to be happy. The problem is that the parents today, are so busy that are not controlling their children, so they get corrupted by media in general. Directors of movies can just say that they are just trying to entertain the audience and get as much revenue as they can. Well, this is a really violent way to be popular in the TV, and they are not helping to the society at all.

Every day I see people driven their cars in an aggressive perspective, and I am one of them, we are always aware of every move of the cars and ready to use our horns just for discriminate of disturb everybody else in the way. We can see more accidents everyday too, and some of those accidents are because of the aggressively of the people, the ignorance and how violent they can turn when there are sitting in a big truck. The problem is also because people don’t feel the same when they are in their cars, they think that are protected by another machine so they can do whatever they want to.

As a conclusion, a simple word like violence can be listening to as a normal word that would not affect anybody. But if we see deeper about the meaning and experimented suffer and pain, then we will understand and try to change this problem of our society. People think that there is not problem in drinking or watching a movie and enjoy the bloody and gore scenes, but the reality is that violence cause more violence and if somebody wants to stop something by using his/her force, then they are using violence to try to stop violence. It is a contradictory dilemma, and the best way to stop spreading this problem is by starting educating our children, because we can teach them to live in a better society, it is only necessary to be right in what you are doing. There should be always values in a family and spread to everybody else until we change violence into harmony and respect.

 

Correction by Paul Barragán

Eduardo Gallegos

Composition and Rhetoric

Enrique Wong

Monday, 3th of May of 2010

Is Violence Normal in Our Society?

Today, violence is so common in our society; we can see people arguing, fighting and even the one who think that are not aggressive, well those are the most aggressive people. There are many channels of violence that we are living with every second. For example the TV set, computers, pornography, sexual commercials, radio, stadiums, etc. In general we can see violence everywhere, we just need to sit down in any place and just wait for two minutes, and we will hear people talking, saying bad words, and thousand of things that might be normal for everybody. I am sure that there will be some people that will be against me, saying that not all the people are violent, but the truth is that yes they are. I would like to make them remember when they had a (like omit) discussion or arguing with some business partner or (a omit ) with your sister, well in their minds, there was a little bit of violence, trying to make that person to understand what you want to explain. We are people that always like to have the reason, it is hard to accept when we are mistaken and that might cause sometime anger with yourself or somebody else.

In the case of the movie Funny Games, I think that was one of the best movies that I had seen. There are many reasons to think so. For instance, when I was watching the movie, I started to get in the movie, so I was thinking of some options about how I can escape if I were a member of that family. I could think a lot of my reactions when I was watching it, and I could conclude that all the time I was thinking of killing or trying to do something to those guys until I can save the family. This movie made me got out of the box, made me think that there is a lot of violence in my head, and in my actions. It is clear that I am not as aggressive as I think, but there are a lot of facts that if they are necessary, like a need to escape or safe my family, I will not doubt to react like that.

The idea of this interesting movie is to make the audience to feel some of the pain of that family by been a victim of the violence, I am not saying that this movie is really bloody and a gore movie but, we can see how involving it is. At the begging we can see that this is not a typical movie from Hollywood, and that of course is not the idea of Funny Games; the essence of this movie is to disturb your feeling, by damaging and killing a happy family. The reason that they are making that family to suffer a lot is because they want to capture your attention by using one of the most important pillars of a person that is your own family. There are really heavy scenes that gave a big impression like when the killer shot his shotgun and destroys the child´s head. For me that was really impacting, because I have a little baby and I felt that I was the father and felt really bad about it.

Another scene that I was really impressed was in the moment when the mother could have the opportunity to take the shotgun and shot to one of the bad guys. To be honest I felt good when I saw that, because in my opinion, if I were her, I would do the same thing. And the sad part is that I am part of the violence, just because I thought that, that reaction was good, but the thing is that you are using violence to stop violence. This contradiction makes no sense of our principles and manners. It is totally the opposite, and not only because some people think that it is not violence, it is a way to survive. I am wondering, if I have the option to escape from the killers, and I kill them to be free, Am I really free? Well it really depends of the angle of the answer, in some point of view, I am free, I am safe, and I could escape from the bad guys. But am I totally free in my mind? To be frank, you are rotten in your mind, there is no sense to be free by using the violence; you are just another new member of the violence.

There are other facts about the movie that I paid attention and it was that each scene took a lot of time until they change to the next one, for example when the child try to escape out of the house, they filmed at least one minute the entire house form outside, making the audience to desperate for knowing what else is going to happen. We are people that to be honest, we like to see violence at movies, but not in this way, and we always want that the good people destroy and win to the bad people. But, this is totally the opposite of a normal movie, this try to create anxiety because you don´t really know what else is going to happen.

There is a phrase that I think it will be appropriately to this essay, and is “the appearance of a person, might be cheating on you”; well this is really a good example of the bad guys because them seems very polite, dressing white shorts and color of t-shirts, that made me think that there were good people and respectful, but we could see that it wasn’t like that. Another example of those false appearances is when we hear at the news everyday that some taxi drivers were assaulted by some good looking guys that were dressing smoking.

I could take some good things about this movie. First, I learned that watching a movie, you can be violent even if you are not moving, but you are thinking a lot of (inconclude idea) (but thinks that    omit ) what you would do if you were one of the characters of the movie. Second, anxiety or desperation might cause on you violence reactions. (you are out of the idea of this paragraph) Third, you need to be polite all the time if you want to receive the same thing.

The sexual commercials are just trying to catch the attention of the people and of course sell their products. They do not really think about of the problems that can appear with those commercials. By selling cigarettes, or publicity of discotheques, well there are many things that in the future, young people will see everything normal, there will be more drug addicts, more alcoholics, more diseases, and a lot of bad things that will affect the society in general.

For some people drinking alcohol is nothing to do with violence. For the company that sells these products are the same ideas, it is not bad for consumers. What they do not see, or do not want to see is that when somebody drinks alcohol, the control of their sense started to be harder, and they can produce many things like street fights, murders, discussions with their partners and so many things that they cannot really control.

One of the best movies that can explain the violence and gore is Saw. The Director of this movie wants to show the audience that you have to pay for all the bad things that you did in the past by suffering. You have to play some games and do humiliating things to survive or just face your actions by dying.

This movie is a good example of violence, gore and really bloody movie, because there are a lot of people that love to see this kind of movies. The question here is why do the people like to watch these movies? And there are many answers, people feel good when they see suffering to others, their pain, make the audience happy. This is crude but is the reality of our society; people just want to satisfy the need of seen violence to be happy. The problem is that the parents today, are so busy that are not controlling their children, so “they get corrupted by media in general (no)” (in general media corrupts them). Directors of movies can just say that they are just trying to entertain the audience and get as much revenue as they can. Well, this is a really violent way to be popular in the TV, and they are not helping to the society at all.

Every day I see people driven their cars in an aggressive perspective, and I am one of them, we are always aware of every move of the cars and ready to use our horns just for discriminate of disturb everybody else in the way. We can see more accidents everyday too, and some of those accidents are because of the aggressively of the people, the ignorance and how violent they can turn when there are sitting in a big truck. The problem is also because people don’t feel the same when they are in their cars, they think that are protected by another machine so they can do whatever they want to.

As a conclusion, a simple word like violence can be listening to as a normal word that would not affect anybody. But if we see deeper about the meaning and experimented suffer and pain, then we will understand and try to change this problem of our society. People think that there is not problem in drinking or watching a movie and enjoy the bloody and gore scenes, but the reality is that violence cause more violence and if somebody wants to stop something by using his/her force, then they are using violence to try to stop violence. It is a contradictory dilemma, and the best way to stop spreading this problem is by starting educating our children, because we can teach them to live in a better society, it is only necessary to be right in what you are doing. There should be always values in a family and spread to everybody else until we change violence into harmony and respect.