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WARNING The torture scenes documented in this film are real. Caution is recommended for sensitive viewers.

One thing to redefine 'perversion' is the instrumentation of the others' bodies as a "pleasure place" without subjectivity.

When the others' bodies are used as objects there is perversion.

In any form. Even under the form of a traditional sexual relationship.

SNUFF (definiton): Illegal videotape which records a person's real death.

- Until what point are you willing to watch?

- ln other words. "What" do you want to watch?

One week earlier.

... in this particuar case. From six years until now various discoveries occurred.

The discovery of various female corpses revealed the agenda of this psychopath, who was active for years.

... who used the city's roads as his playground and earned him the nickname of 'Road Killer'.

Only parts of the bodies were found such as legs, arms and torsos.

All were women between 20 to 35 years old. Usually prostitutes.

This fact leads to a very strong criticism of the Police's work in the case

... because apparently the investigation wasn't taken too serously due to the victims' professions.

as their families claim.

This is a unprecedented case in this country and the first time a suspect of this type has been captured.

He has supposedly given a confession, and even clues about the bodies of the missing victims.

Here we can see some of the analysis of the unidentified remains.

Other studies hope to discover the identities, because there are still unidentified victims.

These images are an exclusive.

- Really, think about it, it would be excellent. It warrants interest.

- I always finish on time, you know it...

- Who? Malena? You think Malena could do this?

- Sure, but Malena is only a feature writer.

- She can give you a simple account, unimportant...

- You know what I'm offering you, a column with opinion, an investigation...

- I don't know, I don't want to wait. I'd like to be the first one to publish.

- No, there's too little time...

But I won't finish it...

- Okay then... One week.

Why always women?

- We know that women always occupied the 'object' category.

- In the main conception, she was often defined as weaker. That was the place of women throughout history.

- This is a fact, it always has been. They are seen as an object... and it won't change.

- There's no such thing as non-historical facts.

-There is a "partition" of the bodies. A psychiatrist named Fiugel

-... has a theory about 'changing erotic zones'.

- In the Victorian age, the focus of attraction were the shoulders,

- ... In the first decades of the 20th century it was the ankles,

- then the shoulders in the thirties. Always the bodies where divided, fragmented.

- A fragmentation.

- The misogyny is a "cultural" fact... And it won't change...

- I brought you something...

- Yes? - Yes...

- What?

DECLARATION.

MUTILATED CORPSES.

WOMEN.

PROSTITUTES.

THE SUSPECT CONFESSES TO VIEWING PORN SITES CONTAINING TORTURE AND SADISM.

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST DETAILING THEM.

- This is the most important thing I have to tell you.

There's a new concept called "Global video-brain".

- As Jung coined the "Collectve Unconscious" term, the TV is our everyday Bible...

... it is our "collective unconscious" nowadays.

- It functions by images, as our brains thinks by images

- ... and what is the engine of today's society?

- Consumerism

... consumption, and waste disposal.

- Those without money are left aside by the system, with no access to it... they don't exist.

- ... the others have complete access, unlimited... to what they please

- ... to watch what they want, any image they want.

- If bandwidth is unlimited... Why must we limit ourselves?

Why shouldn't we watch everything?

- We agree that the engine of society is consumption, don't we?

- Every citizen is an spectator of this "Global video-brain"

- ... it defines what we are, and even what we want to be.

- Even without our knowledge.

- Channel surfing is the projection of our desire.

- What technology lets us? 'Virtuality'.

- Have access to everything, watch everything... to view all

- ... to be everything.

- There's no limit.

- We must agree that it is impossible to believe that there are no limits.

- Why? Who determines that? There are no limits.

- What defines limits?

- I don't know. I think it could be morality.

"Morality"? What is Morality?

- Do you choose your morality?

- I think there is a place for it, if not so, everything would be unmanageable.

- Morality ends up inside the privacy of your house.

- Why be moral...

- ...if you can be anonymous?

- It's fine here... I'll go from here.

- How much is it? - In a moment...

- $9

- Here it is, keep the change. Thanks. - Thank you.

- I'm really late... sorry for the delay. - It's okay...

- Thank you for receiving me...

- You're welcome...

I wanted to talk, and clarify things.

- I've been researching and I read some of your reviews, and I am very interested.

- Do you want something to drink? - Okay.

- Basically, that's why I wanted to interview you.

- Your reviews were very interesting to me, I thought they were great.

- I'm writing a report which is...

- a little complicated.

- And I'd like to understand a little bit more.

- Well, you write profusely about it you're like a specialist on the subject

- Due to the nature of my reviews, kind of.

- Visual vioence.

- Would you like to begin with a first question?

- What's your opinion about something called "snuff"?

- Listen...

- Would you like to make some money?

- Yes.

- Do you want to?

- What?

- To make some money.

- Yes, what do I have to do?

- It's someone I know, he pays good money.

- Okay. - You do what he asks you to do.

- He pays good money

- Okay.

- Tomorrow I'll give you his address.

- Okay.

- Well, goodbye then.

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- "Snuff" is a myth.

- So you're telling me it's existence is impossible then?

- I didn't say that. I said it's know as an "urban legend".

- Then...?

- Refect on that for a moment... it's quite improbable that it could happen.

- I really don't know what to say...

- It's a very improbable fact.

- That a man records a videotape

- ... in which he murders a victim, a person kidnapped just for this

- ... records it

- ... and later he sells the tape to a secret group of wealthy people.

- Which would be ridiculous. it'd be like handing himself over to the police.

- Okay then...

- You are telling me it is impossible

- No... it isn't impossible.

- Actually, what is impossible is the existence of the 'secret group' who would do this.

- A group who trades this material, people who sell it.

- People who abduct victims. a lot of loose ends.

- ... many investigations concerning the missing persons.

- ... one person in the group could inform on on any other.

- But yes, an isolated individual could do that.

- The victim wouldn't be important, that would be illogical.

- The families, the investigations, one would be found out.

- Of course, there are people for which no one cares.

- Exactly.

- In a consumerist socety, the engine is money, those without money...

- I understand... Those without money, they are no good. No one's interested in them.

- It's not a politically correct idea, but...

- What do we see in everyday reality?

- Or even in advertising?

- There are bodies who have more 'value' than others.

- There are people who have more 'value' than others.

- I really don't see it that way.

- Of course you don't! The guilt is not what we want.

- Our most fancied hobby is unawareness.

- In order for the subsistence of some, there are others who must suffer.

- Am I wrong? Isn't that the right order?

- Do you know how much it costs to buy a child?

- There is a price...

- The interesting part is

- ... that a tape in which that child is raped, tortured and murdered

- ... would cost almost double the price of the child.

PERHAPS THE TRUE ETHICS OF CINEMA IS THE RESPECT OF THE UNSEEN PARTS OF THE IMAGE.

IN NOT WANTING TO SEE IT ALL, AND NOT FORCING THE IMAGE OF WHAT SHOULD NOT BE SEEN

- Cinema is opposite to 'reality'.

- ... but there's another registry, an analogue one

- and it isn't supported by any fiction.

- That is the registry of "pornography".

- If someone wants to watch "snuff", they have an easy everyday access.

- "Porn".

- But, do you think that? Such an extreme stand...

- The image of body is dismembered by the camera.

- We only see fragments of bodies, as the camera only shoots genitalia.

- The dismembered person.

- The person is unimportant, we don't know who she or he is.

- Even more important: We don't care who they are.

- There are bodies to partake of, to use, and to consume.

- Come on... You're in the next scene...

- It's not about being for or against violence. It's about analysing it.

- It's impossible... We can't not be involved.

- I need something, Leo...

- At this moment I don't have anything for you.

- Any jobs?

- No, nothing...

- I need to pay the rent, I really need to work.

- They'll boot me out. I'm broke.

- I told you, I don't have anything.

- I won't work on the street.

- ... I hate it.

- Before, you didn't hire me because I was too young

- ... now I'm older, You won't have any problems.

- I'm 21 now, that's the limit. - Okay...

- I really need the money.

- Okay, let me see if I can get you something...

- I won't promise anything, But maybe I can get you something.

- Something like what?

- I don't know... something. Maybe a participation...

- Anything...

- Okay, let me see what I can do... I'll call you later.

- Do you want me to call you?

- No... I'll call you.

- Okay.

- Television creates gigantic monsters

- Such as the US President, movie stars or fashion models

- ... while the internet, and the personal media dismembers those figures.

- Making a carnage, producing new bodies assembled from those.

- We remove our auto-censure

- The censorship which hides behind catholic imagery and restricts the animal inside us.

- After removing censorship with the help of the freedom digital technology brings

- ... we can begin our puzzle with dismembered bodies.

- It's not the dismemberment of the body itself, it's more important,

- ... we dismember the "image" of the body, then we can destroy censorship.

- Appears the "animal".

- "It's not about being for or against violence. It's about analysing it".

- "It's impossible, We can't not be involved".

- Excuse me.

- "We agree the engine of society is consumption don't we?"

- "To have access to everything, watch everything... to view all"

- "... to be everything."

- "There's no limit."

- "We must agree that it is impossible to believe there are no limits."

- "No. There are no limits."

- "Morality ends up inside the privacy of your house."

- "Why be moral..."

- "... If you can be anonymous?"

- What are you doing?

- Quiet...

- Sorry, I'm late... I've got to go...

- None of this should have happened...