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And as someone who writes about movies, and who cares about the big, flawed thing we call fandom, I’m saddened by someone turning that shared enthusiasm into a weapon. And even if this tragedy hadn’t happened at the premiere of one of a dwindling number of genuinely mass cultural events, I hate the idea of using an audience’s suspension of disbelief, their openness to and absorption in the spectacle unfolding before them, as cover—the gunman reportedly started shooting during a sequence involving gunfire, meaning the audience was slower to react. We are vulnerable when we go to the movies, open to fear, and love, and disgust, and rapture, surrendering our brains and hearts to someone else’s vision of the world. We don’t expect to surrender our bodies, too. —How the Colorado theater shooting exploited one of our last mass, in-person cultural events.  (via think-progress)

This is what really scares me personally about this incident. This is someone who took advantage of a cultural norm in a violent, tragic way. I don’t want people to suddenly gain a fear of going to the movies over a freak incident like this. Our culture needs the movie theater experience — so few things we do these days bring so many walks of life together as a silver screen. Don’t let this incident take that away. — Ernie @ SFB  (via popculturebrain)

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