Violence Resistance

Around the same time that the controversial Iraq war bomb-disposal thriller The Hurt Locker was sweeping the Academy Awards, an act of real-world movie violence was taking place elsewhere in California. A cinemagoer at a screening of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island complained to a woman talking on a cell phone; as a result, the man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer and hospitalized with serious injuries.

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Sojourners Magazine June 2010
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