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It's not my favorite type film, but when it's done well I can
appreciate it. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it if
you ever do see it.

Victoria

On 28-Jun-2008, Jangchub <Jangchub at (no spam) sakadawa.org> wrote:

It's not my favorite type film, but when it's done well I can
appreciate it. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it if
you ever do see it.

Victoria

i guess i'm missing something.....
the buddhist that won't hurt a fly recommending the worst in torture porn?

houston?

On 28-Jun-2008, Jangchub <Jangchub at (no spam) sakadawa.org> wrote:

It's not my favorite type film, but when it's done well I can
appreciate it. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it if
you ever do see it.

Victoria

i guess i'm missing something.....
the buddhist that won't hurt a fly recommending the worst in torture porn?

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On 28-Jun-2008, Jangchub <Jangchub at (no spam) sakadawa.org> wrote:

It's not my favorite type film, but when it's done well I can
appreciate it. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it if
you ever do see it.

Victoria

i guess i'm missing something.....
the buddhist that won't hurt a fly recommending the worst in torture porn?


In tantric buddhism, meditations upon, for a key example, Ugra Tara, the
Devouring Goddess, is a completely sensible thing. She is the
Transmutation of Anger who assaults with unquenchable bloodthirst all
Dharmic obstacles. She is sometimes addressed as Tantri or Ma do to her
extreme motherliness (and anyone not afraid of their mom never had one).
To ignore that violence exists and is part of the cycle of death and
rebirth pretty much negates the possibility of ever achieving liberation
from that cycle.

-paghat the rat-boddhisattva

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:26:24 -0700, gardenSPAM-ME-NOT at (no spam) paghat.com
(paghat) wrote:

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kzin99 at (no spam) REMOVEyahoo.com wrote:

On 28-Jun-2008, Jangchub <Jangchub at (no spam) sakadawa.org> wrote:

It's not my favorite type film, but when it's done well I can
appreciate it. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it if
you ever do see it.

Victoria

i guess i'm missing something.....
the buddhist that won't hurt a fly recommending the worst in torture porn?


In tantric buddhism, meditations upon, for a key example, Ugra Tara, the
Devouring Goddess, is a completely sensible thing. She is the
Transmutation of Anger who assaults with unquenchable bloodthirst all
Dharmic obstacles. She is sometimes addressed as Tantri or Ma do to her
extreme motherliness (and anyone not afraid of their mom never had one).
To ignore that violence exists and is part of the cycle of death and
rebirth pretty much negates the possibility of ever achieving liberation
from that cycle.

-paghat the rat-boddhisattva

Bodhisattva? Wow. Good for you. I'm just a shlubby Buddhist
aspiring.

Green Tara is the deity who I do the most meditation with.
She is also called the Mother of all Buddha's and in monastery
situations she is the only feminine energy the monks every come close
to...including their own mothers who give them to the monastic life at
very young ages.

I try not to discuss tantric practice with people who don't have the
empowerment to visualize themselves as the deity. It's not dangerous,
but it can be. Anyway, if you ever do get around to seeing
"Frontieres" I'd be interested in your thoughts. It transcends
language, actually.

I'm an enlightened bean.

I just moved it to the top of my netflux queau.

-paggers

Watched Frontieres last night. It's good of kind but it's one of the few
types of horror I dont' care much for. Thought SAW was well made, never
wanted to see a sequel. I thought HOSTEL was well made, will never bother
with a sequel. And FRONTIERES is well made. In a genre that doesn't need
to be well made to make money it's nice when someone bothers.

But at base these are "just" torture porn, and while I'm not too awfully
horrified by filmmakers' desire to make (and audiences desire to see)
films with nothing but slow torture scenes to brag about, I'm in the main
bored by them. Sure I jumped when a guy got his fingers blown off but big
deal. There's no story to speak of and what there is is merely a direct
parallel to the cheezy American genre of "insane hillbillies capture city
people, kill them slowly, and eat them." There's one scene I actually
liked, when the depressed brood mare child combs the hair of the
last-city-slicker-standing and tries to bond with her.

Nothing else worked for me. If the French make sequels the way American's
do with successful torture films, I won't bother to check it out. There IS
an "insane hillbillies" movie I like a lot, and that's Rob Zombie's HOUSE
OF A THOUSAND CORPSES. But it's not torture porn; it's a tasteless
throwback to 1970s/80s drive-in movie shlock horror delivering everything
such a film promises AND a skillful semi-comedic cast.

-paggers
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