The Academy Award Winners That Should Have Been: Part 4
another person to blame, and already is a person who clearly do not possess the basic human values that life is precious, and killing another person is simply wrong, and I place the blame for that primarily with the parents.
We learn our first basic values in youth, when our parents have complete control over us. This explains why I can see a film like Natural Born Killers, clearly know that it is a film, and even more than that, realize the message in the film, which has seemed to escape so many people, even to this day. I can watch the movie, and yet I would never even think of picking up a gun and going on a multi-state crime spree or even shooting someone because I thought it looked cool in the movie. On the contrary, I was appalled by what these killers on screen were doing, which is precisely the point. I can do that because my parents taught me right from wrong, and made me value human life. And I watched many violent films and television shows growing up, and wow, somehow I never killed or attacked another person. I grew up watching Arnold Schwarzenegger look amazingly cool in dark shades blowing people away in the original Terminator, I thought Rick Deckard was cool blowing androids away in BladeRunner, etc, etc. But what I did instead was that I played with my friends and acted out my adventures inspired by these films with toy guns, and not one of the friends I played with would have ever picked up a real gun thinking it was cool. Instead we shot at each other with play guns, and we knew what a real gun could do, and I have to believe that came from our influences in growing up ... good parents and good teachers.
So I ask any of these people trying to convict filmmakers for inciting violence to explain why I and millions of people watched Natural Born Killers or any of these other violent films and did not go out and kill somebody? If Oliver Stone was purposefully trying to incite violence, why didn't I or my friends immediately head out and kill someone? Why wasn't there mass violence around the country right after opening night of the film? I'll answer it for them ... because we have values, and the few that did commit violence did
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