Dante’s Peak - DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version, HD Ready:720p (Super Quality)
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IMDB rating: 5.50 Plot: Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante’s Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante’s peak is indeed dangerous. People’s safety is being set against economical interests. |
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DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version, HD Ready:720p (Super Quality)
Actors: Brosnan Pierce,Hallahan Charles,Foley Jeremy,Heslov Grant,Trutner Kirk,Ma Tzi,Reddy Brian,Bolender Bill,Jason Peter,Action,Adventure,Drama,
Why does this happen to children?
I was just recently watching the movie Dante’s Peak (the cheesy 90s movie about the volcano) and I was thinking back to a time when I was about 5 years old and my babysitter made me watch that movie. There were a couple scary scenes in the movie that SERIOUSLY disturbed me (I had nightmares for years) and I just recently watched it again, and the same scenes scared the crap out of me. Not as far as giving me nightmares, but enough that I still can connect with that child-like feeling of fear, that would seriously not be there if I didn’t see it when I was younger.
I wanted to know why that happens.
For the most part, it’s because small children don’t have a distinct line between fantasy and reality. They’re still learning what the "real" world is, and they’ll believe anything that grown-ups tell them is real.
I’m sure the babysitter didn’t tell you that the movie’s storyline was real, but as a child, you would have assumed that it was.
So, in the mind you had as a child, you got scared because you didn’t grasp that it was fictional. Now, as you’re older, you can still feel that fright, because when you were young, you associated those scenes with the fear that you felt then. The fear is embedded in the memories of those scenes.
I feel the same way about Deliverance. A babysitter let me watch it, many years ago, and I’ve never been able to make myself watch it as an adult.
abfabmom1 | Aug 07, 2009
It is probably because when you were younger and saw it you were scared and most of the time our emotions do not change about things, so you can be fearing it because of when you saw it.
Victoria H | Aug 07, 2009
ever since i was young i’ve been watching scary movies and that left a permanent effect on me, i sleep with the lights on and i cant stand being alone, i always imagine somthing, i will never left my child watch a scary movie until he/she decides it their self, as a child your more or less prone to getting permantly scarred
Lovin'Life <3 | Aug 07, 2009
What you are experiencing is a mini version of ineffectively processed trauma. Trauma that one either experiences first hand or sees unfurl in front of them, most of us have effective ways to process it so that when you experience similar events in the future, you won’t have the same kind of fear reaction as you did the first time. However, those of us that do not have the most effective processing have the same reaction to similar subsequent events over and over again.
But, it seems that your processing skill is not complete ineffective. You did some level of appropriate processing that this time around, you are not having nightmares.
Fancy word for it is desensitization.
For more information, visit:
http://fitzpatrickconsultation.com
Hope that was helpful.
Dr. Crystal Fitzpatrick | Aug 07, 2009
