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The DOJ excluded images showing "death, physical abuse or injury" from Epstein files release. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No. The term applies to any video footage of somebody actually dying, as opposed to a film where the death is staged.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

snuff film

noun

A movie in a purported genre of movies in which an actor is actually murdered or commits suicide

A film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.

Sorry but no, that is the misconception I'm speaking of. Back when this was originally posted months ago it prompted me to look it up, finding the definition, which quite clearly through the use of the words "actor" and "performers" does differentiate it from simple videos of death/murder to mean a scripted work that contains a death/murder. Which makes more sense in the "snuff films are a myth" context, because quite clearly "videos of death" are verifiably real, which would put that entire debate to rest.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dictionary.com disagrees.

Edit: terms and words have multiple definitions, and change over time.

[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

such is the nature of linguistic constructs

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

Does it though?

Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.

splatter film (a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.)

It just narrows it further, claiming it has to be pornographic, or multiple murders, or collections like faces of death at the most generous interpretation.