I was wrong.
It boggles my mind how sheer arrogance such as this is purveyed
without even a whimper from the same people who outcried the shootings at Sandy
Hook. Let’s think about this clearly for a minute: we are experiencing an
epidemic of gun violence in our streets and almost every week there is an
incident of mass shootings and then Hollywood comes out with a mass marketed
movie called ‘Bullet to the Head’.
It’s no wonder why our younger generation is confused and
angry. The grownups; the people who are supposed to be the smart and rational
ones, are showing an utter disregard for human suffering and showing that
making money off of violence is more important. We are saying to our youth: “do
as I say, and not as I do.”
Sheer hypocrisy.
How many mothers of murdered children will walk past a
theatre or open up a newspaper and see the poster for this Stallone movie and
not cringe with heartbreak. How many will relive the death of their child every
time this trailer comes on T.V.?
Someone once said that violence in movies does not equate to
violence in the real world. Then someone else countered with: if T.V. does not
mold and shape reality, then why are there commercials? Corporations did not
recently spend 3.7 million dollars for an ad on the Super Bowl for nothing. Statistics
proved that when women began smoking in films back in the thirties, women began
smoking in the real world. When Clark Gable removed his shirt in the movie ‘It
Happened One Night’ and displayed a bare chest, the T-Shirt companies had a
heart attack. Today, our children have become desensitized to murder and
violence, because, in my opinion, they have seen countless forms of violence in
the media.
If ‘Bullet to the Head’ doesn’t get people fired up in life
after Sandy Hook, then dammit, nothing will.
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