I just saw a movie called American Psycho. The yuppie protagonist murders around twenty people on screen and no reaction. The yuppie then kills a homeless man and stamps to death his little barking Yorkshire Terrier and I'm looking away. The protagonist, in his delusional state near the end, sees a stray kitten at his feet outside and ATM and then hallucinates that the ATM Machine's screen says "Feed me the cat" and picks up the cat to stuff it into the ATM slot and I'm cringing.

I'm confused and mildly alarmed now. Why is it not as cringeworthy to see a human being murdered onscreen as it is to see a puppy or kitten bite the dust? One may say that we see dead bodies on the news and voilence in movies have desensitizes me. However, to that I can only say that like most Karachiites, I've seen more real corpses of animals than human beings so technically, I should be used to dead animals and the sight of a dead human should horrify me.

This is disturbing.