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This is definitely not for everyone, but ContraPoints (Natalie Wynn) is awesome and always makes compelling videos. This one weighs in at a little over an hour and a half, so I’m still watching it.

Ever since studying Philosophy of Art & Literature as an undergraduate, in which we looked at why people watch horror films, I’ve understood that disgust is actually a complicated emotion. As ContraPoints explains through the Saw series of films, so-called film critics have things all wrong.

I love the provocation that Home Alone is a a more ethically problematic film that Saw because we identify with the aggressor (Kevin) rather than the victims (the Wet Bandits) in the former.

The closest I get to horror these days (or any day) is watching films like Sinners which I watched with my son at the cinema recently. Once you understand that there is an art to these things, and that they have lessons for us as humans, it opens up a whole new world.

Source: YouTube