Comments on: Link of Interest http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/juiyinjong/2008/04/09/link-of-interest/ ... On this day, I see clearly, everything has come to life. Mon, 04 May 2026 13:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: glenn http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/juiyinjong/2008/04/09/link-of-interest/#comment-2622 glenn Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:45:52 +0000 http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/juiyinjong/2008/04/09/link-of-interest/#comment-2622 I live in the D.C. area and read Hunter's reviews usually every week. I resented tremendously his piece on the Va. Tech shooting mainly because he tried to make a connection to Old Boy and other films but then backed away from it for fear of offending anyone. Either prove the point or do not. Hunter's insinuations served no one. Personally, I am sick of people trying to blame films for lone acts of obviously mentally ill people; if Old Boy was the problem then there would be thousands of shooters, right? And what films did Charles Starkweather or Lee Harvey Oswald obsess over? AND the supreme irony in all of this is that Hunter wrote a novel which became the basis for the Mark Wahlberg film Shooter. I guess his opinion would be different if Cho had been a white guy who was emulating Wahlberg's poses in that film I live in the D.C. area and read Hunter’s reviews usually every week.

I resented tremendously his piece on the Va. Tech shooting mainly because he tried to make a connection to Old Boy and other films but then backed away from it for fear of offending anyone.

Either prove the point or do not. Hunter’s insinuations served no one.

Personally, I am sick of people trying to blame films for lone acts of obviously mentally ill people; if Old Boy was the problem then there would be thousands of shooters, right?

And what films did Charles Starkweather or Lee Harvey Oswald obsess over?

AND the supreme irony in all of this is that Hunter wrote a novel which became the basis for the Mark Wahlberg film Shooter.

I guess his opinion would be different if Cho had been a white guy who was emulating Wahlberg’s poses in that film

]]> By: Tracy http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/juiyinjong/2008/04/09/link-of-interest/#comment-2502 Tracy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:27:58 +0000 http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/juiyinjong/2008/04/09/link-of-interest/#comment-2502 I would actually have to agree with Hunter in his first article. Both Oldboys and The Killer influenced the VA Tech shooter. He posed and acted like those characters. We all love Asian cinema and can differ between fantasy and reality. But we can't dismiss it either where there is that 0.00000001% possibility that someone is copying these violent movies. I would actually have to agree with Hunter in his first article. Both Oldboys and The Killer influenced the VA Tech shooter. He posed and acted like those characters. We all love Asian cinema and can differ between fantasy and reality. But we can’t dismiss it either where there is that 0.00000001% possibility that someone is copying these violent movies.

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