vw, if your professor is offering you a different assignment, I'd say take it. I've only seen bits & pieces of Deliverance, but those bits and pieces made me ... uncomfortable, and slightly creeped out.

Deliverance is not graphically violent, but it's so well-written that the emotional violence really gets inside you in an extremely disturbing way. I saw it when it was released and am still haunted by it. I'd say --not "opt out" but--do an alternate assignment.

I know people say it's a great movie and it moved them or whatever, but it is not good for me,

Heather, SL is very graphic and disturbing, and even I, who consider myself pretty well able to deal with that sort of thing was shaken quite badly for some time afterward.

Deliverance is not graphically violent, but it's so well-written that the emotional violence really gets inside you in an extremely disturbing way. I saw it when it was released and am still haunted by it

Yes, this, exactly. I even prepared myself mentally before seeing the film and there are moments of it that come back and give me chills.

I think I'm pretty much that way with film, in general. Some outright violence is easier for me to take than emotional violence. There are just some scenes, the way they're written, that affect me in a very creepy, uncomfortable place that I simply am unable to cope with.

Plei, I can only say that the panic is normal. I had bad moments myself--even after we managed to unload a ton of our debt right before Owen was born. We still get by week to week (or every two weeks as DH's paychecks come in). In spite of the looming fear and the negativity, you find a way. OK, that last bit--word for word it came from my mom. But she was right, so I'll use it.

Yay for Emmett's wee nose!

connie, that's awesome, exciting news for your DH. I hope it comes through for him.

I miss all the fun.

Yep. That's what being a drain on society gets you.

Ask Sean.

t runs away

I don't know if this is pushing boundaries or anything, and everyone is their own best judge of things that should stay out of their brains, but I can't help thinking that sometimes pushing that limit can be a good thing. It's a "disturbing as tittillation" vs. "disturbing as consciousness expanding" thing.

I stopped watching "Brothers in Arms" on TV because it got too upsetting wondering which of them was going to die abruptly and for no good reason--the way wars do things--but there was also a lot of grace under fire and fellowship that was good to see. I don't know if "Deliverance" comes under "the view is worth the slog through hell" consideration, but for myself, I don't want to automatically avoid things that might be disturbing if I might learn something from them.

I think I'm pretty much that way with film, in general. Some outright violence is easier for me to take than emotional violence. There are just some scenes, the way they're written, that affect me in a very creepy, uncomfortable place that I simply am unable to cope with.

I read Sin City last night, and I honestly don't know if I can see the movie, despite how visually gorgeous it's going to be (when there isn't blood, guts, and sick-ass violence). Because it doesn't just have violence, it has systematic, planned-out, fucked-up, sadistic violence-as-vengeance.

Yep. That's what being a drain on society gets you.

Hey, I'm still doing my part for the market economy.

(I bought Emma (and myself) a present just this morning.)

Because it doesn't just have violence, it has systematic, planned-out, fucked-up, sadistic violence-as-vengeance.

This is very, very true. I will probably watch it in the same mindset as The Cell - eye candy visuals and art direction, and trying not to think too hard about the plot & themes.

I think I'm pretty much that way with film, in general. Some outright violence is easier for me to take than emotional violence. There are just some scenes, the way they're written, that affect me in a very creepy, uncomfortable place that I simply am unable to cope with.

t sings Steeler's Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You" a shudders, just a little