Thread:Looperreallyreallysucks/@comment-29414935-20190122103335/@comment-34055410-20190213221356

As for the first part, I honestly don't know. Still, a lot of works have heroes with higher body counts than the villains.

As for the second part, I don't know much about Agent Orange and Ajax, but having seen The Good Son, I know for a fact that Richard's murder happened offscreen most likely because they wanted to keep it a mystery of exactly who killed him.

Sometimes, the murders happen offscreen because it's just better that way in those times. There's a saying that goes "the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown". Basically, if you see the murder, it could be disturbing or gruesome if intended. But if they don't show the murder, our minds will be left to imagine the worst. In Rosemary's Baby, the baby is never shown onscreen. Therefore, that makes it all the more scary, as we are left to imagine how the baby looks like, and our minds, like I said, can imagine all kinds of horrible things. The visuals aren't there, but the suspense is.