What's the different between ultra violent and regular violent?
You haven't seen
A Clockwork Orange?
"The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."
"What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence."
"You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!"
Sam Peckinpah was probably the first director of this genre, even though
Straw Dogs is probably considered to be quite tame by today's standards.
It's a good thing violent videogames and movies only exist in the United States, otherwise this CULTURE OF VIOLENCE thing would be complete rubbish.
I would completely agree is certainly absurd to blame it for creating tragedies like Sandy Hook. But it does seem to help inure some elements of the public from the atrocities of war in particular while even glorifying them. I guess it is all in your perspective.
When I watch classic war movies like
All Quiet On the Western Front,
A Red Badge of Courage,
Platoon,
Das Boot, and the like I see the negative aspects of war. When others watch them, they see a vindication for their own views and a desire to engage in even more wars.
When I watch Quentin Tarantino or Steven Segal movies, I see the negative side of violence. I see people you don't want to emulate in real life. I see the need for police and a criminal justice system to protect us from those who really are violent, even the cops themselves in some circumstances. Others have just the opposite reaction.
It is much like the reaction to the movie
Boyz in the Hood when it first came out. Many whites were very scared that it would promote even more racial violence and were very opposed to it even being released. But it was actually a cautionary tale that promoted just the opposite feelings in most who actually watched it.
