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May 19

Name of Film Type

What is the name of the type of film which deliberately attempts to harm their viewers? I seem to remember it being on topic while reading about the Nouvelle Vague?

JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 04:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How could a film harm its viewers? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:48, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This might be a reference to subliminal content. --76.69.47.55 (talk) 05:51, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Because JMW mentioned the Nouvelle Vague, another possible angle is André Bazin. Some of his essays were subsumed as being on Cinema of Cruelty. The film's auteurs being cruel to their characters (and thus cruel to the empathic audience). The director/auteur's love for the character is counterbalanced by cruelty. "Cruelty is not always excluded from his world; on the contrary, it has a necessary and dialectic relationship to love". (André Bazin, What Is Cinema?, Volume 2, 1959, translated by Hugh Gray, University of California Press, 2005, p72, ISBN 9780520242289) ---Sluzzelin talk 06:19, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've not been right in the head ever since I saw Pink Flamingos in the 1970s. This has probably been obvious to many of you. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 10:12, 19 May 2018 (UTC) [reply]

This film has been messing with viewers since 1975. MarnetteD|Talk 23:00, 19 May 2018 (UTC) [reply]

If Vaxxed was to some degree successful, that could hurt people. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:44, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If they took it at face value, maybe. But was it a deliberate attempts to harm the viewers? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:41, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. likely not. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:16, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dumb and Dumber seems to have accomplished its evil mission, though it took a while. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC) [reply]

Olympics and music

It's understood music has been connected with the modern Olympic Games. The athletes also tend to listen to their favorite music to help them relax, right? What other types of music can connect with the Games?142.255.69.73 (talk) 09:23, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See Art competitions at the Summer Olympics, @ the Music section. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 10:09, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, music features prominently in figure skating competitions, in addition to opening and closing ceremonies. —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 15:50, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More than just featured - as far as I know, music is required in skating competitions. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:16, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]