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In Reply to: Re: "Glorify means putting the violence is a positive light." posted by jamesgarvin on May 23, 2005 at 10:05:23:
The violence is filmed in a seductive, attractive, hyper-stylized fashion that lends it an aura of hipness. The absurd, gigantic fight at the film's climax is a perfect example, as is the scene with the postal worker (I think he was a postal worker) giving the gang members they're come-uppance.The filmmakers surely intend to say the violence is nothing but tragic, but again, the stylized gloss they use to frame it simply obscures the point.
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I must say that I saw through the "gloss." I liked the style, but it did not obscure the message, for me. One could argue that the message of anti-violence is lost if told in the same tried and true formulas of cinema past. Why go to see another film in a style that has been done to death. Hard to get the message when no one wants to see the film. See bad guy shoot. See bad guy get shot. The style, I think, is designed to upgrade the film for the modern audience. I have seen many James Cagney films, and am not sure that the style would play well here. Or even a seventies style. Perhaps the modern audience is still smart enough the get the message underlying the style.Certainly, I have not heard from groups whose job it is to protect us from ourselves complaining that the film was glorifying violence. The photography on an album cover does not change the music inside, for me. I suspect that the demographic for this film, and say, The Fast and the Furious, for whom style is everything, was a little different.
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