Interested to read that Lars Von Trier now regrets making his movie Dogville, because he believes it may have inspired mass murder in Norway. It’s not one I’ve seen, but his comments surely add weight to the long held concerns of many. Proving a link between gratuitous on-screen violence and general behaviour seems difficult, but devotees of science can argue that it was achieved some years ago, by psychologist Albert Bandura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YclZBhn40hU.
Viewers with an interest in his experiments may find the evidence persuasive, or, at least, feel the matter worthy of discussion.
Or perhaps there are those who enter this world as sadistic torturers and habitual slayers of the innocent, which seems, to my mind, the less credible proposition.
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