John Singleton and Wim Wenders Say Our Lust for Violence Has Made Us Lose Touch With Reality

Two Filmmakers On Death, Destruction, and Real-Life

 

The tragic shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, has opened up a larger conversation about how violence translates from film to real life. When directors Wim Wenders and John Singleton visited Zócalo at the Getty Center in fall 2011 for a conversation about how Los Angeles exports its images to the world, they both talked about how the films made in L.A. include violent images that are disconnected from reality and can cause suffering in the larger community. What does watching violence onscreen do to a society?

Violence …