Private Thoughts

In der New York Times von morgen blickt A. O. Scott auf die Geschichte der in Filmen gezeigten Gewalt zurück. Schlagartig mehr Gewalt brachte “Bonnie and Clyde” von Arthur Penn. Anläßlich dieses Films, im, wie man jetzt sagen möchte, gewaltgeschichtlichen Wendejahr 1967, schrieb Pauline Kael im New Yorker:

‘Bonnie and Clyde’ brings into the almost frighteningly public world of movies things that people have been feeling and saying and writing about. And once something is said or done on the screens of the world, it can never again belong to a minority, never again be the private possession of an educated, or ‘knowing’ group. But even for that group there is an excitement in hearing its own private thoughts expressed out loud and in seeing something of its own sensibility become part of our common culture.