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Is it uncomfortably sadistic for a movie to depict a villain swinging a mallet at the main female character


...or seizing her and lashing her slender neck to a post with his leather belt?

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-uncomfortably-sadistic-for-a-movie-to-depict-a-villain-swinging-a-mallet-at-the-main-female-character-or-seizing-her-and-lashing-her-slender-neck-to-a-post-with-his-leather-belt

https://www.salon.com/2004/09/10/cellular_2/

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Please to explain

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https://www.quora.com/Is-it-uncomfortably-sadistic-for-a-movie-to-depict-a-villain-swinging-a-mallet-at-the-main-female-character-or-seizing-her-and-lashing-her-slender-neck-to-a-post-with-his-leather-belt/answer/Jack-Lurhstaap-Romero/comment/78866923

I read the question and gave you my reaction based on the question itself, which is all the information I had to go on. I’ve never seen that movie.

Also, if you’d really read the answer, you’d note that I mentioned two possibilities, and the first one was that you’re simply a sensitive person.

I have to say, I do find it suggestive that you zoomed right past that, zeroed in on the second possibility, and got upset about it… Often a symptom of repression. You feel threatened and upset by the very idea, to the point where you overreacted and represented my answer as much more definitive than it really is.

Think about it.

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Maybe. That belt bit was improved by Statham btw.

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Gotta hate the villain. Might as well make him repulsive

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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Cellular

Complete Monster: Detective Ethan Greer is the most ruthless of the cabal of crooked cops. Incidentally filmed by realtor Craig Martin brutally beating and executing two rival drug dealers as his boss watches in their latest power play, Ethan has Craig's wife Jessica kidnapped after killing her housekeeper. Beating Jessica and threatening to kill the Martins' young son, Ethan also kidnaps Craig to retrieve the video and opens fire on the young hero Ryan, who is helping the couple within a crowded bank. Preparing to execute the family until Ryan talks him into meeting to exchange the family for the video, Ethan enjoys hunting down Ryan, beating him down before preparing to shoot him dead and kill the Martins. Savage, sadistic, and more than willing to use violence at a moment's notice even against children, Ethan's personal cruelties make him a more vicious adversary than even the leader of the murdering conspiracy underneath his coldblooded, icy exterior.


https://die-hard-scenario.fandom.com/wiki/Ethan_Greer

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Ethan_Greer#:~:text=Ethan%20Greer%20is%20the%20main,the%20Fast%20and%20Furious%20franchise.

https://www.popoptiq.com/glory-action-villain-jason-statham/

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Statham did well as a villain.

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