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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What difference is there between this and movies shows about the Holocaust? Or movies like Wolf of Wall Street about a guy who inflicted severe financial harm on many people.? Or being entertained by every war movie ever made showing deaths of soldiers?  The fact that this makes your skin crawl means acting is good. Many of us were too young to remember all.of the details and haven't gone out of our way to read up on Dahmer.[/quote]
What’s the difference? For one thing, movies about the Holocaust are frequently about the machine and the everyday people that let an atrocity on that scale happen. Same thing with a guy who tanked markets and ruined people - there’s a political message, it’s still ongoing This stuff? This type of stuff always feels a bit like a snuff film. In a sense, it’s pornographic. You’re watching a program about a guy who killed and ate his victims and tortured them for his own sexual pleasure. [/quote]

That PP is clearly getting off on the subject matter. Who else would want to watch something the victims families have already said they wish hadn’t been made, about that subject matter? It’s disgusting. [/quote]

Give me a break.  How many people 'get off' on mobster movies and shows about real life people?  I literally watched a movie with Michael Shannon who played notorious mafia hitman Richard the Iceman Kuklinski. His kids are still around and so are family members of his victims.  No one was outraged when the movie Iceman came out.  Or how about Johnny Depp's movie about Whitey Bulger (Black Mass).  Were you outraged then when that movie came out because people flocked to theaters to watch a film about a mass murdering psychopath who still has victim families alive today?

The controversy around this show is asinine. It is selective outrage calling for censorship, which is even more outrageous.  Art reflects life. Dahmer killings are historical events that have every right to be turned into a show/movie just like every other movie/show about serial killers, mobsters, war, and genocide that has come before it.[/quote]

Yeah I’m failing to understand why Dahmer is off limits. There are so many dramatizations of horrific real life murders and serial killers. Just in the last year or so off the top of my head…Under the Banner of Heaven, Blackbird, The Staircase, Candy, Dr. Death. Why is Dahmer different?[/quote]

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