eye of the beholder
The goriness of gunshot, or other; mechanical means of death for a human being, to me, lies in the recognition that there lies a fellow man, a living, breathing person who formerly had walked upon this earth just as I had, and now the spirit of life is gone. Even when it is now a dead enemy.
They have now become, instead of something beautiful; God's creation, now just an animal corpse. Cold, dead, and to decay.
If you had known the person, you will know that they have family who loves them, and they loved. They had dreams and aspirations and hopes, all of which have now ended abruptly. It is truly sad and somber.
We are supposed to be the pinnacle of God's creation, and to see a human; one who has been killed may strike you as to the significance of that.
The small arms wounds I saw were for the most part simply punctures; the FMJ military rounds effect human flesh like a metal rod had been pushed into the skin, the skin being depressed into a cavity; a cone, and the ugly hole in the center. However, when bones are struck, a, dangly, and shreded limb, or grotesquely deformed face or skull is repulsive. Shrapnel from grenades and especially artillery is horrendeous and the avulsion wounds from them can produce images that will never leave your mind.
I concur with you on the "wholesome," but old movies that emphasized the story line and human quality that the current computer graphic images miss.
It seems the TV series -all specialize in gore, for instance the CSI episodes.
I've been accused of being an old foggie, and I'll admit to some of that, but trying to be objective as I can; the current entertainment has lost something with all the emphasis on visual effects and little or no substantive story to tell.
Maybe I will change my pseudonym to "Gabby Hayes."