Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Erik T. Burns]

>What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any sort?

Y'know, under most circumstances I would agree with this sentiment. But the
issue here is not the "bad parenting" of the audience, it's the fuckwit
with the guns. The killer, not his victims.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:23 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> I don't think this appalling fact has much to do with the quality of the
> movie.  What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any
> sort?
>
> Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger there
> and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 6:21 pm
> Subject: Re: Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?
>
>  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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