Review Of Noah Gittell's Not All Movie Violence Is Created Equal?

People who love violence tend to be desensitized to acts of violence, but violent movies don 't necessarily promote violence. Furthermore, Noah Gittell in his article “Not All Movie Violence Is Created Equal”, which is written just one day after the tragedy in Newton unfold, affirm that real life violence “can’t be relegated to having a single cause, and if it can, that cause certainly isn’t a work of entertainment.” (Gittell). In his article, Noah Gittell assert that “the best work of entertainment are already having that [violence] debate” and “violent films stand out as examples of how fiction provides a safe space to examine violence and mankind’s inability to move past it”. To support these ideas Gittell used variety of different movies

The first flaw in “Not all violence movie is created equal” system is Gittell lack of convincing evidence. When talking about Looper, Gittell give too much details about special fact of the movie instead of drawing the connection to his final conclusion about how Johnson may use the scene “ between Joe and the mob” to “resemble the relationship between a film and its audience” (Gittell). Secondly, Gittell made a false assumption about his reader’s knowledge. Since “Not all movie violence is created equal” talked about how violence scenes shouldn’t necessary promote violence, Gittell’s intended audience include a lot of anti-violence movie critics. Despite that fact, Gillet’s supporting evidences are mostly found on the-most-extreme-violence-movie-of-all-time list. By taking references from these kind of movies, Gittell consequently confuse not-so-much-a-fan-of-violence-film readers. Plus, the majority of movies that Gittell used have complexity plot which discourage a lot of eager-to-know-what-he-say-but-don’t-want-to-read-too-much readers. If I were Gittell, I would use movies which are more general and popular as well as have simple plot like the Karate Kid and In Time to prove that violence is just another movie genre whose quality depends fully on the people who make it. The finale flaw that

When I was a kid, I usually enjoyed fighting a lot even though I got no reason to do so. I never pay much attention to my parent’s feeling and how I can be a bad role model to my little sister until I got a chance to watch Tam Mao, a movie about an orphan kid who got no choice but to fight everyday in the poor neighborhood to survive. That’s when I knew violence should be the last choice that I should consider in life. Overall, I don’t think Gittell did his best job in this article. In my opinion, “Not all movie violence is created equal” is similar to a Samsung Note 7 which have great construction but are so likely to disappointed its’ users by blowing off in their