![]() ![]() ![]() The legend of Faces of Death spread via word-of-mouth, as everyone from gore enthusiasts to curious eighth-graders sought out what was purportedly the first movie to depict real people dying on screen. But if our obsession with death has been around as long as us, it’s only in the past few decades that spectatorship of death has grown widespread.Īs is the case of so many things – our inability to focus, our loss of face-to-face intimacy – technology is to blame.įorty years ago, the cult classic film Faces of Death, a 105-minute compilation of killings and autopsies, brought to light our collective desire to see what JG Ballard called “the horrors of the real”. “All humans have sadistic urges, masochistic urges, voyeuristic urges,” said Dr Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill–Cornell School of Medicine. ![]()
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