Suggestion: How Evil Is Too Evil for an Oscar? (Suggestions?)

@RezaKJoi​ Hi Reza, I've seen 14 of the 21 movies on the list and I think ten of those fourteen pretty explicitly show the morally reprehensible actions of the villains. Of the other four, two I don't remember well enough to comment on and two are fantastical PG-rated films so they're not meant to be realistic. I consider six of those ten movies to be some of the most disturbing films I've ever seen. David Lynch, for example, certainly doesn't spare any of the horror. I think 'Blue Velvet' is a masterpiece but I could never watch it very often. It's brutal.  

I agree that a lot of movies are intentionally easy on audiences, even when they shouldn't be, but I'm guessing that most of those are mainly ventures of commerce and I'm fortunate enough to be able to avoid many of them.   

@rubyfruit76​ I love Russian literature, and I believe it has a very powerful ability to convey the concept of pain—realistically, in great detail, and yet in a complete and profound way. In my view, cinema cannot truly represent pure evil and pain, because films are seen by thousands of times more people and therefore have a much stronger immediate impact.This reminded me of the book Everybody Lies. If I remember correctly—and I hope I do—there was a part in the book where a film had been released and faced strong opposition, based on the claim that it increased violence in society, but the author used data and facts to prove that this was not actually the case.