Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[David Morris]

http://tomshone.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-tragedy-in-colorado.html

Tom Shone (Guardian film critic):

"Denby's point is disprovable with just a second's thought: think of
the appalled wobble in thate girl's voice — "there's blood" — as she
pointed to the t-shirt of one of the escapees. Did she sound inured?
After three decades of watching movies, the connoisseurship of
spectacle has done nothing, I can happily report, to erode my ability
to respond to the real thing: I will happily chortle through
Tarantino's latest opus and grow queasy at the thought of a splinter.
To think otherwise is really a fond fantasy about art's efficacy
dressed up as a warning. It also plays right into the hands of the
NRA. Forget midnight screenings and Peckinpah: go for the guns. "

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 7/24/2012 4:01 PM, Mark Kohut 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
>
>
> Can there be "willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle"  if
> the spectacle isn't seriously violent in the first place.  Is Batman movie
> "violence" even violent enough to dissociate from?