Surgery is done to benefit the subject. Vivisection is done to benefit the person conducting the procedure. There is a big ethical difference. Remove a leg because its infected, or remove a leg because you want to see what happens. Dr. Kildare typically did surgery, Josef Mengele conducted vivisections.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
I happen to have my dictionary from school (I never throw anything out)--THE WINSTON CANADIAN DICTIONARY FOR SCHOOLS (copyright 1963). Page 725:
"viv-i-sec-tion (viv´i-sek´shun), n. dissecting, or experimenting upon, lower animals in order to gain scientific knowledge calculated to save human life:--v.t. viv´i-sect´."
The connotation you give is the one that's popuar now, but the denotation in my school dictionary didn't give me that sense. Given the above neutral definition, you can understand why I'd be confused. The word "vivisection" in Wells' 1896 novel is presented as inflammatory, but my ten year old self couldn't work out why.
They Live starring Roddy Piper (1988)
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Zombie Land 2 and Jumanji 2
Both very fun sequels. I was really surprised with Jumanji being so good. Woody Harrleson we son is the man!
THREE ON A MATCH (1932), directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Joan Blondell, is like a Depression Era VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
Three girls in elementary school (circa 1919) take different life paths. Mary the bad girl in school (played by Blondell as an adult) gets sent to reform school but acquires steady work as a showgirl. Vivian the popular girl in school (played by Ann Dvorak as an adult) goes to an elite private school and marries a well-off lawyer, Robert Kirkwood (played by Warren William). Ruth the studious girl in school (played by Bette Davis as an adult) goes to a secretarial college and becomes a stenographer.
One day, the three happen to reconnect and they light their cigarettes on one match, defying the superstition against lighting three cigarettes on one match.
Vivian--who always had everything handed to her, who has a loving husband and a beautiful little boy, Junior--she hungers for something new in her life and ends up with a no-good louse played by the handsome Lyle Talbot. She falls into drug abuse and poverty, but Mary rescues Junior from his mother's neglect and returns him to his caring father, Kirkwood. Soon Mary and Kirkwood fall in love and marry when he secures his divorce from Vivian. And Ruth becomes Junior's governess (Bette Davis was not yet the big star she would become and is rather a plane Jane in this movie).
Meanwhile, things are getting worse for Vivian and her boyfriend who owes a bundle to gangsters. Humphrey Bogart plays a small role as a gunsel. In one scene he makes a gesture to indicate that Vivian has been snorting coke. Vivian who always thought herself so much better than everyone and looked down her nose at Mary, now has fallen as far as a human being can go.
While the production code would soon make these kind of movies impossible in Hollywood, because they were viewed as immoral, these pictures actually conformed to the prevailing morals. Women are punished for going against the social norms--they must either reform and follow conventional morality or they must fall into degradation and lose everything.
Dvorak got in a pay dispute with the producers, Warner Bros., when she found that she was getting paid the same as the boy that played Junior in this movie. After that, the quality of work she was offered declined.
Nazis have a lot to do with the change. Prior to them, the notion of ethnic cleansing was pretty much on the table. The idea of inferior humans - very much on the table, openly. Thats how you got the British Empire and all that Imperialism that occurred. But then the Nazis actually played out these concepts that some people are more equal than others - on a large scale. Tested the waters, so to speak.
Likewise I don't think vivisection has been inflammatory throughout most of history. Unless you were the one being vivisected, or that person's family. Its a matter of ethics, and those change with cultural changes. About 150 years ago, conservation was a matter of going out and shooting animals for closer study. Basically taxidermy. Now its got quite a different meaning because cultural has changed.
What I said holds, though. Humans dissecting living beings for self gain (to learn about humanity).
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
When I was reading the Wikipedia article for ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, I found that the use of "vivisection" in the dialogue and in the scene of such (although it hardly shows anything) was one of the reasons that the British Board of Film Censors in 1933, 1951 and 1957 refused to certify the movie--presumably for cruelty to animals yet the movie shows human actors pretending to be animalistic, no animals were harmed in the making of the film.
When I was a very little boy (before I started school), I was immensely interested in the lives of insects and would study them. I went through a phase where I would pull them apart for my scientific interest. I then thought better of that and became saintly toward all creatures, worrying that I might step on a bug by accident and kill it. I wondered what would Jesus do? What would Superman do? They both had a code against killing, yet how could you walk around without crushing bugs under your feet? Isn't everyone a murderer?
Lincoln Lawyer
Didn't expect much and still was letdown. I general I dig movies like Rainmaker, A Time to Kill or Fracture but LL didn't deliver.
"Lincoln Lawyer" sounds like a skit they would do on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
Step Sisters (2018) Netflix. I’ll just cut and paste the description from Wikipedia because I don’t want to waste another moment thinking about this movie: “black sorority girl who agrees to teach the art of Greek stepping to a house of party-obsessed white sorority sisters.”
This “comedy” has a well-deserved 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.