Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

Tara Brady madame.brady at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 14:44:31 CDT 2012


Mr Denby would do well to remember what he does for a living.

On 24 July 2012 20:25, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "This willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle has a
> downside, as many people have said: we become inured to actual
> violence when it excites us on; we forget that that there’s pain and
> death, we become connoisseurs of spectacle. This kind of
> connoisseurship showed up in the response to 9/11, which many people,
> with obvious relish as well as awe, said resembled a movie, a remark
> that left anyone with half a brain feeling queasy, if not furious." —
> David Denby, The New Yorker
>
>
> He (and many others) go there:  "Blame the movie, not the guns/killer."
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ban Batman, not guns!
>
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