The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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