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I tried to watch this film again last night but it is just so violent that I stopped watching. I saw it in the cinema when it first came out and I think I have seen it twice since on video or DVD but I have always skipped over the torture scene as I find it very disturbing to watch. Last night I lost interest in the film after about 20 minutes.

I believe you can convey heavy things to the audience by implying things rather than having to show them vividly and graphically. A good example of this is the film The Silence Of The Lambs where a lot of what happens occurs off camera and you dont see it. During the scene where Hannibal Lecter escapes and does some very nasty things to the two Policemen who had brought him his dinner, it keeps cutting to shots of the SWAT team in the lift and then cutting back. You actually see very little of what is happening but you feel the impact of what is happening.

I don't know why Tarantino feels the need to shock and disturb the viewer when the vibe of what is happening can be put across to the audience more subtely. I think the man is just obsessed with violence and gore. What do other people think about Reservoir Dogs, whether it needed to be so violent and also this issue of how things can be implied to the viewer rather than shown and that thing still have the same impact.

I think it is cheap shoddy film making to just go for shock when a better film-maker would imply it. I think Quentin Tarantino would be a weird person to know if you knew him in his private life.

"I think Quentin Tarantino would be a weird person to know if you knew him in his private life"

Yes. Him and everybody else including you...and me too and thats what makes the man interesting.

I enjoyed the film and while i think it is a violent scene it is necessary to indicate how calm the nut job Michael Madsen character is about it as he dances along to Steelers Wheel doing it. In gfact its the play ful aspect of this scene that lends to the disturbing nature of the act while at the same time takes the edge out of it with dark humour.

I really enjoy Tarantinos work and cannot share your view about the cheap shoddy film making. As a first time independent film production I think it was an awesome achievment.

The man is an artist so we'll allow him his foibles. The man is a movie fan and it shows in his work.

Silence Of The Lambs is great too but the there would be no justification to seeing cops get disembowelled and strung up by their innards to classical music. Just themere notion of it is more disturbing than the ear slicing off in Reservoir Dogs.

Two very different films too. One is a bank heist movie and the other is a serial killer who skins women and wears their clothes so it should be done in a way best left to the imagination.

Oh and dont forget the amount of word of mouth that scene generated in interest alone for the movie for a then unknown film maker.

The mans a genius and deserves to be where he is.

Max, you've seen the film twice before. You knew what to expect on this third occasion. Dd you expect a different outcome in terms of your response to it ?

I saw it when it came out.

Everybodys talks about the "ear" scene but you dont see the ear being cut off !!

"Come on Max,pull yourself together.What age are you!!"

Personally, I have never been the same since Bambi's mother was shot in the Walt Disney film of that name.

We're not all rough, tough Scotsmen you know! !laugh!

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"...Silence Of The Lambs is great too but the there would be no justification to seeing cops get disembowelled and strung up by their innards to classical music. Just themere notion of it is more disturbing than the ear slicing off in Reservoir Dogs..."

'Seeing cops get disembowelled' - that was my whole point, you dont SEE it. You just see the aftermath.

The amount the film was talked about, and still is because of that scene, proves the film is more known for its shock value than anything else.

I found it less appealing that one previous occasions. I intended watching it and turning over when the torture scene was happening but I had little interest in watching the film after all. Maybe my attitude to a film like this, even without watching that awful scene, has changed over the years.