torture theme

We are made to ponder the practice of some humans to deliberately inflict severe physical or psychological suffering on people that are in their power.

19 total · 2 major · 17 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
movie: Save the Green Planet (2003)	major	Kang was imprisoned in a workshop basement and subjected to numerous gruesome tortures.
tos1x10	major	Simon van Gelder was tortured mercilessly.
ahp4x27	minor	In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock described how the rack is used to stretch a human body beyond its limits.
ahp7x13	minor	Sir Humphrey spoke of a tortured saint. He might also have been torturing his first wife whom he kept locked up in his study and whose tongue he cut out.
ds92x15	minor	Disobedient Orellius colonists were put inside "hell-boxes" and left out in the sun.
ent1x10	minor	Archer objected to the Nausicaan being tortured, presumably on humanitarian grounds.
ent3x02	minor	Archer tortured Orgoth to get access codes to the Xindi database that might contain information to help save Earth.
ic1976e07	minor	Sejanus had Lucius tortured to persuade him to sign a false confession.
movie: Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)	minor	Jerry speculated that the unconscious man had been tortured owing to markings on the man's palms that resembled cigarette burns.
movie: Tenet (2020)	minor	A Russian (or perhaps Ukrainian) mercenary tortured the Protagonist with a pair of pliers.