The last five years have seen an increase in the stand
movies with their big stars are taken to new heights
argue that the violence is influencing our country÷Õ
youth. Yet, each year, the amount of
viewers also increases. This summer÷Õ smash hit
Independence Day grossed more money
than any other film in history, and it was full of
violence. The other summer hits included
Mission: Impossible, Courage Under Fire, and A Time to
contained violence, and all were highly acclaimed.
Independence Day, were aimed toward adults who
separate screen violence from real violence. There is
in film. If an adult wants to spend an evening
watching Arnold Schwartzenager Save the
world, then he should have that right.
Film critic Hal Hinson enjoys watching movies. In
movies at the same time that he remembers being afraid
watching Frankenstein, and, as he described in his
essay øŒn Defense of Violence,?it
played with his senses in such a way that he
instantaneously fell in love with movies. .
The danger was fake, but Hinson described that it
played with his senses in such a way
that he almost instantly fell in love. Hinson feels
that most movie lovers were incited by
the same hooks as himself. Movies were thrilling,
Hinson says that as a culture, we like violent art.
new to today's culture. The ancient Greeks perfected
violence. According to Hinson, they believed that
"while violence in life is destructive,
violence in art need not be; that art provides a
healthy channel for the natural aggressive
forces within us" (Hinson 585). Today, the Greek
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