Let me start by thanking my buddy John for insisting on dragging me to this utter trash of a movie in 1974. The (numerous) unpleasant scenes are still seared into my memory.
Never before-or since-has an assemblage of unsavory characters and cruelty to fellow human beings'graced'the big screen. (Okay, I should give honorable mention to 'Goodfellas', but that's for another One- Star review I'll submit later.)
Now here we are in 2017 and, as we all know,the world is a much more peaceful and brighter place than the one portrayed in this putrid 1974 film. Ya right.
Is society shaped-or desensitized- by violence in films and on television? Who's to say? I used to laugh when our teachers and preachers suggested that rock music was "destroying the youth of today". But I will say I'm disturbed by the number of people who give this film a positive review as a must-see 'message'movie. There is no message here but mean-spirited cruelty and violence.
Never before-or since-has an assemblage of unsavory characters and cruelty to fellow human beings'graced'the big screen. (Okay, I should give honorable mention to 'Goodfellas', but that's for another One- Star review I'll submit later.)
Now here we are in 2017 and, as we all know,the world is a much more peaceful and brighter place than the one portrayed in this putrid 1974 film. Ya right.
Is society shaped-or desensitized- by violence in films and on television? Who's to say? I used to laugh when our teachers and preachers suggested that rock music was "destroying the youth of today". But I will say I'm disturbed by the number of people who give this film a positive review as a must-see 'message'movie. There is no message here but mean-spirited cruelty and violence.