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There is no such thing as pointless exploitation - surely every created viewing experience has a point, even if it is far from the logical, ethical and moralistic base of most movies.
The GUINEA PIG films (talking about the two most notorious instalments at least) do not set out to become anything other than graphic accounts of torture - without realistic special effects or agressive, documentary-style camerawork they would have been consigned to oblivion long ago never to have reared their heads to each new generation of thrill-seekers (perhaps THEN they could be considered pointless!).
There is more background to DEVIL'S EXPERIMENT and THE FLOWER, THE FLESH & THE BLOOD if you want it (something about pain barriers and killer/victim contrasts according to their creators), but even on face value their very reputation as uncompromising and nihilistic works assures they have a point to make to every viewer - even if it is primarily "car-crash" morbid curiousity - that this is what someone is doing to someone else, wanna see how we think it might look?
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