Entertainment and torture

So it is a little challenging to come up with a topic to write about when it comes to torture and relating to class....Well for me any how.... However i was surfing the internet and thought about the different things in entertainment that have to do with torture. Well for starters film, horror movies seem to be based around torture and not killing anymore. It seems that entertainment for people now a days is more about torture then it is killing. Some movies come to mind, Saw(1-10?), Hostel 1 and 2, The Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hitcher, Turistas, I believe you get the picture.  Why is it that entertainment is all about torture? Why do people find it entertaining? We have a situation in the United States about the torture memos and what to do with those who committed the acts of torture, and so we find the acts they committed horrible and unethical, and so on, yet we enjoy watching films all about torture. Why is that? We say it is unethical for a person to commit such horrific acts, yet we will gladly watch it on the big screen, whether it be a true story or made up. 

How can entertainment be different from real life when it comes to torture. How can we withstand the look of it on the big screen but not in the real world, even if its a true story?

The world works in so many mysterious ways, ways in which one cannot understand. Torture is one of the mysteries in the world, what is moral and what isn't, what is extreme and what is testing the waters. People believe it is a no brainer to explain what torture is, they believe that the word torture explains itself. In reality it does not, there are so many "justifications" of torture. So what does make it legitimate? When is it getting out of hand? Are doctors being handy making it legit or is it illegitimate that they can die and a doctor is on staff to revive them. Who knows! All i know it is a complicated world, it is a world that may never be explained. All we can do is try and debunk what we feel is  false and stereotypical.