Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Bekah]

Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger there and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).

Bekah

http://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/

On 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?
> 
> I'm asking for information.  Way too old to judge for myself.
> 
> P
> 
> 
>> . 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
>>  
>> Many said it without any relish. & Pynchon has half-a-brain and
>> he was furious (in GR).......
>> 
>> 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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