“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.”
Pauline Kael was an influential American film critic, born on June 19, 1919, and passed away on September 3, 2001. She was a prominent figure in the film criticism world, known for her unique perspective and profound insights into cinema. more
“tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.”
“Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.”
“a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.”