Just read a movie review in The Times. About the new Tarantino epic. Felt compelled to respond. As follows. Merry Christmas all. God bless:
Out of the horrific, mind numbing, soul numbing tragedy of Newtown, at least we have, at long last, an upwelling of voices cowing the NRA into (near) silence.
It’d be refreshing to see this demented cartoon met with an equivalently emphatic and eloquent response: empty, silent theaters.
A few years ago, Mr. Scott reflected on the debate over the violence in the film “Bonnie and Clyde”. He looked back, considered the history of film since 1967, and our own history, and ruefully concluded that, just maybe, the contemporary critics of the film were right.
In recent days, many have reflected publicly on how many people we have lost to gun violence since the horrific days of the 60’s assassinations.
Way, way too many.
At the time, we considered what we feed ourselves as a culture. We ought to be doing so now.
Look, “Lincoln” was about the reality of social change in the real world. The genesis for the abolition of slavery was the efforts of the Gandhi-esque and MLK-esque people of the time. And sadly, there was the horrific, mind numbing, soul numbing violence of our Civil War, which Lincoln strove to bring larger meaning from via the Emancipation.
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It’s good that we raise our voices together and say enough to the ‘gun nuts’ in our midst.
But it would be good to step back and reflect also on how we feed ourselves, and our children, spiritually and emotionally.
We’re not a censorious culture, nor should we be.
But we really might want to consider the impact pornographic violence has on us all.
We owe it to Lincoln. To Gandhi. To Martin Luther King. To all the victims of mindless violence. To those fragile, vulnerable, blessed children in Newtown. Now dead. To those firefighters up in Rochester shot dead, just today, on Christmas Eve, for God’s sake!
We owe it to them.
“Now, now, now!”
