Monday, October 25, 2010

Movies made me do it...

I do not deny that many people take what they see in violent movies and try to enact those heinous actions in real life.  But I do not feel that it is not because those movies are corrupting all of the wholesome youths, rather they are being manipulated by impressionable youths already prone to delinquency.  In the movie we saw a person who said that he would copy whatever violent act that he saw in movies.  Who is to say that without violent movies this person would not have committed the crimes.  That person may have committed the crimes in a different manner, but I am positive that the person would still have acted out in violence.  These movies become more of an outline rather then a driving cause. The fact that people are acting out scenes from violent movies is awful and should be stopped.  No one deserves to die because some punk kids wanted to be "Scream" in real life.
I feel that we cannot blame Hollywood for making films that seem to glorify violence.  These films are in demand by the general public for their entertainment value.  In affect the public is the driving force behind the creation of such films.  Therefore, it should be the public's responsibility to teach against committing violent acts.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that we cannot blame Hollywood for trying to make violence in a sense "more violent" because there is a demand out there for these kinds of movies and they are entertaining. I mean i love horror movies, but im about to go reenact a murder scene I saw in the film.

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