Pain is at the root of most drama and entertainment. When does it get too real? This very disturbing and graphic show looks into some case studies and asks some deep questions. WARNING Very intense subject matter.
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I'm very interested in pain, and not in a masochistic or a sadistic way.
I'm interested in pain and suffering for much the same reason that, well, virtually all of you are.
Look at the entertainment you consume.
Take out all of the physical and mental pain and suffering, and what do you have left?
It's a source of art and always has been because it speaks to us on a human level.
Doesn't matter how many things are different with human beings through the ages and how much the culture changes us, how much the technology makes us different from our forebears, we can all understand pain.
I think about it a lot, you know, when I say that I'm interested in the extremes of the human experience, what does that mean?
Sometimes I break it down.
I think it just means pain, mental and physical.
You start to wonder about being so interested in that.
But James Baldwin, the writer, put it wonderfully, I thought, when he pointed out that this connects us to each other, and he wrote, quote, you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.
But then you read it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive, end quote.
But it's such a strange thing, this pain, right?