Review of Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA (2016) by Anthony B — 19 Aug 2016
Sadly, we've become numbed to the mass killings inflicted by gunmen in our country. (I was one of three audience members on opening day.) We've also become numbed to the way the subject is reported.
TV news anchors reporting from the scene. What for? To show networks care? Or to boost ad revenue? We've also become numbed by the way anti-gun advocates like Robert Greenwald, director of Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the N.
R.A. handle the subject. Interviews with white, middle class family members of a shooting victim. Sanitized shots of crime scenes, minus the body parts and mangled bodies. Statistics superimposed on the screen, stats that in anywhere but the US would be considered a national disgrace.
In numbed-out America we're at the point where the only way to get people's attention is to show raw footage of the irreversible damage bullets cause.
This review of Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA (2016) was written by Anthony B on 19 Aug 2016.
Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA has generally received mixed reviews.
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