The Trigger Warningsthat is, the warnings about sensitive content that warn us of conflicting scenes or that can shoot unwanted sensations in the spectators, are an element that, since its generalization in the audiovisual has not stopped raising controversy. Because it makes sense to warn of content linked to violence, sex, drug use, traumatic memories, but … eat food of animal origin?
Care, notice. The Trigger Warnings They started in the field of psychology and therapy, and were used in reference to the post -traumatic stress disorder, since these warnings tried to avoid intrusive thoughts and flashbacks of this ailment. These notices alert, for example, victims of physical or sexual aggressions that the material that was going to be presented could arouse traumatic memories.
Who is afraid of Trigger Warning. Since it began to be used in the 2000s (it is believed that the term itself was born In 2005), It was a much discussed resource: Richard McNally, professor of psychology at Harvard University, pointed out that its purpose was being perverted. If images related to trauma were avoided, it would be reinforced and also could not be treated. But although in psychology the Trigger Warnings They were never entirely accepted, they soon became a common note in the cinema.
Trigger Warning Today. The definition of the term that is commonly accepted has a broader and more social tone. We are no longer talking about some images to trigger the echo of a trauma, but rather that they can hurt sensibilities, and it has gone from appealing to sexual trauma to all kinds of conflicting content (violence, extremist political ideologies, suicide, death, drugs, insects). THE PURPOSE: that everyone between warned to movies or books. “You cannot complain, we already let us know,” they seem to say, in that eternal American panic to a millionaire demand.
The controversy. From there, the history of Trigger Warnings It has been full of controversy. There are those who consider that it is a subtle and perverse form of censorship, or even paternalistic, and that as with their precedents in psychological literature, their abuse can promote Hypersensitivity instead of resilience to certain conflicting contents. There are authors and authors of topics such as sexist violence that ensure that this issue is behind the protection of the victims. And of course, there is the importance of the integrity of the artistic work, which with the Trigger Warnings is left over stripped of surprise capacity.
More. The situation has favored the arrival of pages such as Does The Dog Die?databases that began reviewing very specific topics (if a hypothetical dog died that came out in a film or series) and has ended up expanding to All types of sensitive content: abandonment, abuse, traffic accidents, discrimination, medical instruments, mental health and a very long etcetera. It is in this context where the vegan activist appears Allison Mcullocheditor of a Letterboxd page where it has a section of “vegan alerts”.
Kraven: guilty. In a profile that dedicates The New York TimesMcCulloch tells his experience watching ‘Kraven el Hunter’, where he detected problematic elements such as “costume made with skins”, “dissected animals” or “characters eating meat”. Of course, this criterion is that of someone strongly committed to the vegan cause and animal welfare. High scores for ‘Kung Fu panda 4’ are justified in their 24,169 films.
A vegan antihero. The funny thing is that McCulloch defends that he makes sense that Kraven be vegan for the love he demonstrates for animals, but at the same time “does not make sense to forgive the life of the lion and communicate with other animals to eat a fillet later.” But McCulloch’s zeal goes beyond the complaint of debatable behaviors in fiction.
Dead animals. In the 2018 film ‘Destroyer’, McCulloch considered that the typical poster of “No animal has been damaged in the realization of this movie” could not be applied if we saw, as was the case in the movie, a few ducks skewered and roasted in a Chinese restaurant. It is only an example of the many that characterize their surveillance: in commercial cinema it is usual to see small animals, such as fish, dying on the screen, used as bait at the service of fiction.
Red lines We agree or not with McCulloch’s ethical budgets, the interesting thing about his work is that he forces us to ask ourselves where our limits are and why. Is it objectionable, as she considers, to see a leopard skin carpet in ‘Kraven’? If we consider that milking a cow is a form of abuse, is it problematic – so it has normalization of that abuse – when the cow is a fantastic animal, as was the case with a creature of ‘The last Jedi’? Is the mere appearance of “eggs” problematic, as herself reviews? A good opportunity to self -exam … and then everyone who sees what he wants.
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