Several weeks ago a man bought a ticket to go to the movies in Colorado. After entering the theatre he went to the front row and sat down. A few minutes later he slipped out the front exit door. If anyone saw him they probably thought he forgot something in his car or just wanted to check that he had locked it. No one observed anything suspicious. When he tee entered he had a host of concealed weapons but in the dark theatre who could notice.
While the smell of wam popcorn filled the air cold anger was running in his veins.
As a shooting scene was going on in the movie, he rose up and began shooting Camouflaged by the violence in the movie, real violence began to be the experience of those in the theatre. At first those present thought the shooting was part of the movie until they saw people being hit. it was a weird dimension of violence in the movie theatre becoming the opportunity and cover for a malicious act of violence in the theatre. Who would have imagined. Violence is at epidemic levels all over the world. We continue to make movies that are violent, encourage violence and make violence seem unreal. Violence is real and deadly as people in that theater discovered on that day.
Is this a wake up call? will we heed it?
If asked about their role in the violence the movie makers would probably say, we were just making a movie!
Really?
Can we make violent movies without being honest with ourselves that we are inadvertently if not directly creating not just a cover but a condoning of that violence.
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