I just watched a movie called Hostel on my Rogers On Demand. The ROD said something like "A couple americans go backpacking across Europe searching for a secret paradise and don't find what they were looking for" or something like that. The place they were seeking turned out to be a place where rich people from around the world can pay to torture, mutilate and kill people. Girls at local clubs luer tourists, drug them and deliver them for killing. I was so horrified watching limbs being cut off, chainsaws, eyes hanging out of their sockets from blow torches, etc... one american managed to escape and on his way home found his friend's torturer on a train. He followed him to a bathroom in a train station and got his revenge.

I used to laugh when people said we're being desensitised to violence with tv and movies. The examples they pointed out made me laugh because I knew it was just a movie and I wasn't really affected by what I saw. But movies like the one I just watched made me hold my face in my hands, I couldn't bear watching some of it. What's worse is there probably really are places like that in slum countries like the one in the movie. I'm glad I decided not to take the only Caribean resort left for the week I wanted (Dominican Republic) and chose Florida instead!

I haven't been able to bring myself to watch any of the Saw movies. You can't desensitise me to human torture and mutilation. I can't believe people like these kinds of movies. Maybe what they really like is the fear it puts in them since we're all desisitised to "normal" scary movies.

Update: A day later I still can't get the images out of my head and keep thinking about the horrors in that movie. I'll get over it soon.. I just can't believe what kind of effect this movie had on me. I highly recommend it for kids 5 and older. hah yeah right.