Being Bad/ Born Bad?

After reading the article in the Metro on the train to a lecture I was outraged at the broad assumptions made in comparison to the Virginia killings and the Korean film Oldboy.

The article was clearly written by someone who had never seen the film as they incorrectly labeled the genre as a martial arts film, which is ridiculous, as the film does contain brutal scenes but there is only two fights in the entire film. This issue of broad assumptions is discussed on the BBC Paper monitor... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2007/04/paper_monitor_158.shtml The writer speaks more about the real roots of the film, not in graphic Hollywood movies but Greek tragedy, and about the different newspapers ideas of the film warping Seung-hui Cho's mind.

In my opinion the photographs can be linked to the film but in no way to the killings. The film is right in the use of violence as a shock tactic and the film is artistically sound in its story and themes. I believe that it is society that cannot accept the mindset of a man who kills 32 people as just that way because he want to "be bad" and it doesn’t matter how many violent films he watches there is a clear mental health issue preventing morality and guilt. Film, TV or any type of media cannot stop these parts of the mind from functioning only suggest that they are not necessary, leaving it up to the individual, in this case Seung-Hui Cho not Chan-wook Park. (Dir. Oldboy)

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