No,
I am not thinking of killing anybody, or planing anything criminal.
It's 'just that it seems to have been literally years that it's
impossible to view anything other than crime on television, each and
every night, throughout the week, on most entertainment and movie
channels, English or the Spanish ones. The rest are talk shows on
ridiculous subjects, competitions on even more ridiculous themes, to see
who can eat the most hamburger in 15 minutes, or who can stand on one
leg the longest, with an apple balancing on their heads; or so called
reality shows of Big Brothers peeing while picking his nose, or swearing
at one another. The only salvation would be the Discovery documentaries
which are always good, but alas, the same programmes have been repeated
over and over for the last 3 years or longer!!
So back to crime. These programmes are always put on latish at night, by design I guess. Some of them I do quite enjoy. Those few seriously made ones with plausible and well structured plots and good acting. I have all the usual ones here in Spain: CSI of this and that location, Law & Order, NCSI too, oldies like Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. Even though I like them, some I can only watch with my eyes closed. I know, sounds stupid, but I do just that at times, when the screen is covered with a human body, the chest opened up from neck to torso, with all his interior vitals spilling out all over the autopsy table. Or a copse found in the woods with thousands of wriggly worms crawling on every inch of his face and body, already more than half eaten ... or buckets of blood everywhere and the dying man is still struggling for breath ... Are all those lingering gruesome scenes necessary to let the audience get the picture correctly, that the guy or gal is dead? Why else would he or she be on the stone slab of the autopsy table? So I 'watch' with my eyes closed and naturally with the ears extra alert. If it's an autopsy, it's rather difficult to judge when to open my eyes again. Too soon I will get hit with blood or intestines dangling, covering half the screen; too late I would miss some quick flashes of certain object found or lying around on the floor, or gestures of the pathologist or one of the investigating team, all part of the important clue for the solving of the crime. You see, I sometimes like to take part in the 'who done it' procedures. Then, big surprise, maybe. No villains or murderers. The poor soul died of an accident or natural but sudden cause and fell into the shark's mouth, and got spat out because he hadn't taken a bath for days, and the shark couldn't stomach him or something ... Big disappointment, makes you feel cheated, having wasted an hour or more following false or invented trails. Then it's time for bed. How on earth can I negotiate sleep with so much blood and gore still so fresh on my mind? I know, you will say nobody is forcing me to see any of these disturbing programmes, that I could simply ignore all of them, right? Wrong! I am hopelessly and helplessly hooked!! |
- Current Mood:
Crazy
No comments:
Post a Comment