| | BLAME MOVIES
Oldboy is one of my favorite films. Like, top 10
stuff. I've seen it many times. And honestly, I believe Cho Seung-Hui,
shooter of VT, probably did too. He probably loved it... the pictures
are very fetishized and glamorous, and the hammer pose probably was
influenced by Oldboy. However, that's part of "art"... bad people see
it too. It affects people of many different mentalities. I know when
the Beslan shooting happened, people blamed Rammstien because they
listened to their music to get pumped up. The thing is, people can
twist something into whatever they want to. It doesn't make that thing
bad just because someone twists it.
Let me give an example of how I see this. What if back in the
1500's someone saw Hamlet and found all the death at the end exciting
and then went out and exacted revenge on people they thought were evil.
It's not impossible. Any great work of art, especially a dark one, is
likely going to inspire many, but also find itself twisted into the
hearts of bad people. But bad people will always exist, and if Oldboy
never existed the VT shooting still would have happened because it was
CHO and who he was and what happened to him most likely (molested) that
lead to the bloodshed, not a movie.
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| | Posted 4/19/2007 10:33 PM - 83 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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