David L Ezell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >From my point of view, that seems to prove we are being constantly >desensitized by what we see. I sincerely hope I never find the sort of >unnecessary violence I see in todays cinema as either "cute" or benign. > I might have been unclear on this issue. I did not mean that the Screen-L'e= rs of=20 tomorrow would find the films cute, but that they would find our reactions = and=20 concern with them such. And, I might add, "unnecessary" has always been a=20 buzzword when it comes to critique of violent films, from Griffith and on. Ulf ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]