Admit it, I am afraid that each of us has a similar desire in our hearts. We all love violence more or less in our hearts, which is why we all like to watch violent movies and other literary works. Freud believed that human instincts include the instinct of life and the instinct of death, which is why pornography (life) and violence (death) are the eternal themes of literary works.
We like to wrap our love of violence in terms of "justice" and "revolt", so movies like V for Vendetta and Django Unchained are always well-received, even if they don't contain any Violent movies like "A Clockwork Orange" and "Fight Club" are always welcome, too.
For "God Bless America", some people have interpreted it from the perspective of justice, taking Frank, the protagonist of the film, as a hero who resists the superficial and vulgar business society and opposes the abuse of freedom to insult others. But from another point of view, is it really a just move to raise a gun to kill people who are not comfortable with and who have different views from their own? —Although Frank said he did not kill for political views, the politically relevant figures he killed were all right-wing Americans (criminals who insulted anti-war people, compared Obama to Nazis, Tea Party demonstrators, preached religious leaders who hate Jews and homosexuals, etc.), I am afraid it can also explain some problems. Contrast Frank's actions with his own statement that "America has become a cold and violent place..." and we can see the irony.
If violence has nothing to do with justice, then aren't those movies all obscenity and thievery that encourages the audience to kill and set fire? If you think so, it can only show that you are a layman in literature and art. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once discussed the function of tragedy: by arousing strong emotions such as pity and fear in the audience, tragedy can express these emotions and cultivate and purify people's hearts. This argument also applies to violence in literary and artistic works: when we watch the characters in the movies kill, we experience strong emotions, feel happy, and the desire to kill in our hearts is vented, so we live in reality It is even more impossible to kill people in the world. That's the real function of violent movies.
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