The uproar of violence in contemporary America has been a constant subject of worry. Violence has erupted consistently and without warning, leaving many lives endangered and several people hurt. The wounds that this violence has been causing not only affects people physically on the surface, but it also lays the foundation for an extremely shaky future for America. Americans are worried about their lives and the lives of their children and are for this reason reaching for guns to arm themselves. Instead of violence being ameliorated, the stage for violence is somehow being set without much warning. Ironically this violence is being started from within American society. The worst part is that it is even more unexpected than the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. There is tension amongst Americans when it comes to protection. After a series of events, most recently the most tragic starting with the Oklahoma bombings, there is an uneasy understanding of life. Americans have been prompted over and over again to go out and try to protect themselves, never minding the fact that their targets are other human beings which will more often than not be innocent targets. Vivian C. Sobchack, states this "treatment of violence is a function of our increasingly technologized view of the body and flesh" (Maasik and Solomon 378). What she means by this is that the image of the human body is being undermined by society which is in those means affecting the people into internalizing the lack of respect for the body. The body, especially in film is more often than not the subject of abuse, rape, or of committing violence. There is little respect being shown to the sacredness of the human body. For example, he says that, "this hyperbolic escalation and quantification of violence also has become quite common to the action picture and thriller, where the body count only exceeds the number of explosions and neither matters very much to anyone: here vi...