After watching this trailer of "Dead Island" I wondered to myself, is this really the games are trying to get their audiences now? By using the death of a small zombified girl being thrown out of the window and falling to the ground dead (Well.. you know what I mean) just to try to get some popularity and getting their game to sell well?
I mean on a technical scale the editing and the use of slow-motion and emotive music really makes you become emotionally attached to the film and I can't complain about the graphics or the rendering as they are top notch and brilliantly done. But on the emotional scale, the use of the dying girl, the worried mother and the fighting dad makes you feel a rollercoster of emotions. The scene at 0.55 with the slow motion shot of the dad helping his daughter makes you feel a loving emotion which is literally shattered at 2.17 were the dad throws his daughter out of the window and down to the ground below.
The part that got me the most was while the mother and father were fighting for their lives and trying to protect their daughter, she was slowly dying on the bed and they could do anything. The mothers face as she saw her daughter being brought back to life and attacking her father. The imagery of a family attacking a family was the part which hit me the most. A YouTube comment best describes this:
[Wow. Watching it forwards was actually more depressing. I mean, seeing the futility of this family trying to protect itself from zombies and slowly losing the battle is the saddest thing I've seen in a while.]
The youtube channel "Rooster Teeth"'s member Geoff described the trailer as hard to watch due to the fact that he has a small daughter himself and watching only 20 seconds was "terrible". His arguement was that why was this needed to be put into a video game? The death of this girl is nothing more then a ploy to get the game some media coverage for its shocking use of violence, murder and deaths. Numerous websites have joined it stating that the fact that they have children makes this trailer hard to watch.
So although the trailer is a piece of CGI effects, editing and use of emotive music, have they cut away from the targeted market because of this?
Also is this in shape of things to come - more violence and disturbing pieces of media?
