"To me this film would be as awful and haunting as cell phone videos of real death, and seeing violence of this kind, even if it’s passed off as art, is a kind of voyeurism I just don’t want to participate in. Violence in communities of color must be discussed, but it will never be entertainment."
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Julianne Hing, on the new film ‘Precious,’ over at ColorLines.
Pastor Molly preached on this last year, acknowledging that although she consumes it and although media violence may not beget real violence, there is a “soul-shaking disconnect” between the “real violence we condemn and the fake violence we consume.” Violence in our lives is muffled, “by distance and by euphemisms,” and I wonder if ‘Precious,’ and its mass marketing isn’t more of the same.
How do we walk in the way? Molly didn’t have any answers, but she thinks about this topic a lot and I recommend her sermon to you.
