Posted: Sep 08, 2019 3:55 am
SafeAsMilk wrote:If you've got people agreeing with Thanos, then that's a society problem, not an art one. Censoring Thanos won't solve that.
I wasn't saying we should censor it. I only mentioned censorship in the context of speech in other countries.
Again the issue isn't the art itself. The issue is the mentality around the art.
Thanos is objectively evil. No sane or rational person should sit there and sympathize with him as a villain or his motives or philosophy. Yet people do. The film portrays Thanos ideology as a "road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of ideology.
Its not that they wholeheartedly agree with Thanos' means, but they agree that humanity is overpopulated and that action needs to be taken to curb said overpopulation and bring balance into the world.
https://oxfordre.com/criminology/view/1 ... 4079-e-189
This isn't a new issue, nor particularly unheard of. Media consumption affects people's beliefs and values.
I think you guys are reading a bit more into what I was saying. Im not saying the Joker movie will be bad. I am simply saying the message it is sending is not a good one. Entertainment or not the character of the Joker is not a character to sympathize with.
