Angry

I tell you what makes me angry - and I am aware I am going to sound like everyone's Dad here but I don't care - this fashion for 'torture porn' films. I'm talking about Captivity and Hostel and Saw.

No, I haven't seen any of them except Saw 1, but I've read the reviews, and I know enough. Tarantino is no genius, he is a sad pathetic little prick who deserves nothing but contempt for his nasty attempt to introduce cartoon violence - or ironic or satirical vioence or whatever bollocks he talks about - into our lives. I hate him.

And I dislike even talking about them because that is probably what the makers want or something. But how can the people who make these things possibly justify their sad and pathetic little lives to themselves?

They may argue that if the public demand it, then someone will produce it. Well, that's bollocks. The public would bring back - and watch - public hangings but that doesn't mean demand should be satisfied. I can't believe I'm saying this, but we should be braver about censorship.

I suppose you could also argue that it's just imaginary - just some harmless fun. Well, I think it devalues our whole culture, it pollutes people's minds and it encourages more violence. I can't prove it, but I know I'm right.

I only hope that those people who make this junk are regularly haunted by doubts that maybe, just maybe, they are not creative but as worthless as the lowest form of violent criminal in society. GRRRRRRRRRR.