Alex Ostrovsky
3/2/2012
Eric Dinsmore
English 114B
Violence
in the Modern World
After watching the film “Gamer” is a movie set
place in the not to distant future where things we once thought we
only doable in video games is actually possible in real life. There
are real life version of a “Sims' game where real humans are
controlled by others from anywhere on the planet. Also in this future
society there is a game that is more or less the real life equivalent
of “Call of Duty” also real people being controlled by a
stranger. These people die and are forgotten about leaving the person
playing them completely unharmed. These games that people play is not
to far off from what is happening in present day, granted there are
no real humans being controlled or killed in the current games being
played now. Even without real human beings being killed there still
is a very high level of violence being portrayed in games like “Call
of Duty” and “Grand Theft Auto”.
In the passed before video games, the availability of
quick and in real time news, and all the insane graphics that we can
now put into movies there was a real lack of violence in peoples day
to day life. It seemed like the only violence you could find back in
the day was real war or whatever you read in a book or a comic. Many
people would have gone about there life without the availability to
see all the violence that we see almost on a daily basis. When you
compare today to what our parents had its almost insane the
technology leap we have made in even the last twenty years. I have
seen little kids playing “Call of Duty” and other violent video
games and it doesn’t seem to bother them at all. I don’t see why
kids are allowed to play these games. Shouldn’t these kids parents
care what they are doing and what kind of an effect it has on them.
In the fifties Rock n Roll was considered to be a terrible influence
on people and that wasn’t even violent. Imagine what those people
who thought that Rock n Roll was bad would think about all these
games and movies that we all can easily get our hands on.
In the film “Gamer” there is a game in which real
people are controlled by other humans and are forced to fight each
other in vicious combat. The game is called Slayer and has become the
futures equivalent of today football Sunday. Everyone can watch it on
TV and enjoy there favorite player blast other people into mush with
a variety of guns. This is almost exactly what kids today are able to
do. In the movie “Gamer” we see a social acceptance of violence
and it also seems as if the people living in this world have no
emotion toward violence. I think that it is trying to show us that if
we keep allowing for kids of our generation see violent images and
are taught that playing these games are okay, and that things done in
the games aren’t really that bad we will have a serious problem in
the future. I don’t think that our society will ever go as far as
in the movie “Gamer” but it is possible for us to approach a
similar level of acceptance.
We may not think that all these violence in video games
is wrong, and even some have argued that with all the video games out
there it has shown to have a possible impact on crime rates helping
them go down. This is crazy to even consider, how can making violence
almost acceptable in the eyes of the youth a good thing? It cant be
good to allow kids to grow up in a world where violence is becoming a
social norm and only time will tell how it will effect us.
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