Fear Is A Valve
A killing machine, a bloody creature, or a psychopath are what we initially picture when we think of “Monster”. Fear is the first emotion that comes to us. We think of them as the furthest thing from human possible, something that doesn't relate to us. Yet, we created them from our wildest thoughts. To us a “Monster” is a valve that lets out the dark within us, a mask that allows to hide behind while we show our true intentions, and a menace portrayed from what we fear in real life. A “Monster” is a valve because it lets us release the dark and evil within us and for a moment it lets us act out the “Monsters” we imagine. The movie The Purge is a perfect example of a valve. The movie is about an alternate US where unemployment is at 1% and
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We all are crazy but we all want to fit into the norm, we hide our wild thoughts. It is looked down upon people that show this other side of them that everyone else tries to hide like Stephen King said, “If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you’re under stress ...then you are left alone to go about your business.” (King) “Monsters” are a mask that we hide behind to not get taken away to a mental clinic. It is a way we are able to live what we secretly think without being held accountable for. Also, we crave horror and death we just feel uncomfortable expressing this or fear judgement Stephen King talks about how “The potential lyncher is in almost all of us.” Back in the day people would see executions as forms of entertainment. Like in the wild west, for example, everyone in a town would go see people get hanged and they would make a day out of it. Now we use “Monsters” in a movie theater to satisfy our secrete sick craving but hide behind this movie mask that makes people not look insane. We created these “Monsters” to work as masks to hide behind as we satisfy our disturbing
We all are crazy but we all want to fit into the norm, we hide our wild thoughts. It is looked down upon people that show this other side of them that everyone else tries to hide like Stephen King said, “If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you’re under stress ...then you are left alone to go about your business.” (King) “Monsters” are a mask that we hide behind to not get taken away to a mental clinic. It is a way we are able to live what we secretly think without being held accountable for. Also, we crave horror and death we just feel uncomfortable expressing this or fear judgement Stephen King talks about how “The potential lyncher is in almost all of us.” Back in the day people would see executions as forms of entertainment. Like in the wild west, for example, everyone in a town would go see people get hanged and they would make a day out of it. Now we use “Monsters” in a movie theater to satisfy our secrete sick craving but hide behind this movie mask that makes people not look insane. We created these “Monsters” to work as masks to hide behind as we satisfy our disturbing