Violence. That's the topic of discussion in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado shooting rampage. Violence and the cause and effect thereof. At the moment, the internet is abuzz over gun laws "not being strict enough" or too "stringent." There's a lot of chatter over what seems to be acceptable as entertainment or downright bad taste. Movies are a national pastime. It’s a place to escape our world and visit times and places we've only read about in books or seen in our dreams. Sometimes, those stories are depictions of this day and age. No matter how real or how fake the images on screen are, we know it was "just a movie."
Of course, there will always be those that try to imitate art.
James Holmes, the madman behind the Aurora theatre shootings, claimed to be "The Joker" - Batman's nemesis. Naturally, that madman's claims have sparked an uproar against The Dark Knight Rises as being the sort of film that inspires such madness.
