Should I feel Dirty?

I needed to address the following concern of mine I had. I am not sure if I am like many people in this situation, or merely the minority, I am definitely assuming I am the first of the two options. Now, it is something that plagued me late on Saturday night while kicking back with a friend trying to nurse the excruciating hangovers we self-induced the night before, we sat down to watch Tears of the Sun, the Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci film on Channel 9. Now, it was by accident we ended up watching this film not from any desire of our own, but as the opening credits started and the quiet African village foretold the story we were about to be exposed to, it looked like quite the film, however more than likely involving a series of horrible human rights tragedies and Bruce kicking some serious African rebel butt.

Now with most Bruce Willis films, there is lots of action, little dialogue and an ample amount of breast and blood. The film Tears of the Sun took us to those places in every aspect. The only short fall it had was that the film itself was about African genocide, so when the scene comes on of a village under attack from a swarm of Rebels committing atrocities, and it cuts to Monica Bellucci running through the carnage in a low cut singlet with heaving sweaty breasts, I felt a little dirty. One, I was staring at her boobs, two, I was staring at them while this massacre was going on in the background and was completely torn as to whether I was being inappropriate for staring, or it was the intention of the director to be looking at the breasts rather than the small children being murdered. I felt it really distracted from the whole heaviness of the movie.

Now after a few more of these scene flash before me, I turn to my friend during a quiet mountain landscape scene and comment ‘Hmm, did you see her tits in that scene??!’ to which she replies ‘Yeh I know!’ and we both agreed after that point that the only reason we remained silent was because it made us feel both uncomfortable to comment on such a spectacular site juxtaposed against something clearly horrific.

So, that is really it. What are we supposed to do? Should I feel like I am dirty for staring at boobs during something so violent, or, on the other side of the coin, am I merely a victim of product placement and sexual appeal oozed into Bruce Willis films?

The latter. I am the victim of the assault of breasts to distract from the fact that these events actually happened and she was chosen for her breasts and slight accent which pours through her speeches like a fine wine!

Just as some evidence, Monica Bellucci during the film...