Well, you are entitled to your opinion. I prefer the good old days -- 1950s and early 1960s -- when it comes to terms of public decency.
I have never seen (or even heard of) the Hitchcock movie that you rerfer to. In "Streetcar", I did not have to witness the rape scene in order to understand that it occurred. I fail to see how the story line would have been enhanced by a graphic depiction.
BTW, some guy named William Shakespeare wrote some plays with rather violent content, but his writing was such that one did not have to actually witness the violence in order to understand it or imagine it.
Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust. --WS Titus Andronicus.
eeeeww!
Well in King Lear someone gets their eyes gouged out on stage. And there is plenty of walking around with someone's head in a number of the plays. And then there's Titus Andronicus... But in Streetcar, I don't mean a graphic depiction just what Kazan had put in at the time...which was cut out then. Rhe scene barely registered at all until they restored it in the 90s.
"BTW, some guy named William Shakespeare wrote some plays with rather violent content, but his writing was such that one did not have to actually witness the violence in order to understand it or imagine it."
Seen much Shakespeare?
Suicide, Murder, etc.