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The last of us part ii teaser trailer 111/7/2023 The volatile imagery used in the trailer to underline the heinous acts being committed are familiar scenes to us. The Killing Joke saw the Joker torture Barbara Gordon in a statement that reinforced the notion that gender influences violence. Violent attacks on women, many times for perfunctory purposes, isn’t new. The violence is particularly upsetting as it features the assault of women. Without any context, the trailer fails to introduce (or even really tease) the story players will embark on. There's an argument to be made that the trailer raises an enticing question - Why are these women being attacked? - but that mystery is both too familiar and too broad. But here, the promise is almost exclusively gore. In the past, Naughty Dog’s trailers have captured a particular mood or suggested a compelling relationship. That information never comes, however, and all we’re left with is residual nausea.Ī trailer is a pitch to its audience of what to expect from the full game. It’s not clear why we’re watching two people be tortured, but we’re asked to take in the extreme violence under the assumption that we’ll be rewarded with more information for doing so. The victims of the vicious assault, two women, are unnamed. The gruesome imagery Naughty Dog manages to cram into a five-minute trailer for The Last of Us Part 2 is physically uncomfortable to sit through. The blade of a knife pressed into a vulnerable stomach. A noose wrapped tightly around a struggling woman’s neck.
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