Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
Stanley KubrickThe most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
Stanley KubrickSome people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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