8mL
8mL 8mL, or 8 milliliters, is around 0.4% of the amount of blood needed to be lost for an average human being to die of blood loss. 8mm, or 8 millimeters, is the length of film that old home video cameras were recorded on. 8MM is the name of a horror movie starring Nicholas Cage that tells a story about a man who investigates the snuff film industry. Videotape is the name of a short story that we read in class about the unintentional recording of a senseless and horrific murder. When reading Videotape, I couldn't help but be reminded of 8MM, and I don't think it's hard to see why. Both are stories focusing on people getting disturbingly enraptured in ordinary and under-dramatized recordings of brutal and violent murders. Looking even beyond the similar premises of each work, both stories also involve a husband who drags his wife into the disturbing tapes he's watching, a kid who was involved in the tape, a...